{"id":2175,"date":"2015-05-21T03:31:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T03:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/21\/2015-5-21-tramway-html\/"},"modified":"2015-05-21T03:31:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T03:31:58","slug":"2015-5-21-tramway-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/2015-5-21-tramway-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Tramway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0_RM4WzliE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>How do you build a tram system up a steep slope before we invented anti-gravity boots and rock-climbing robots? Helicopters! These &#8220;mechanical dragonflies&#8221; hauled stuff up the hill to build towers and string cables so that a bunch of guys in the 1960s didn&#8217;t have to. This video is 25 minutes of your life that you may, as I do, find fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the opening set-up shots are worth the time just to see the hotels and businesses that no longer exist&mdash;like Bob Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Come for the nostalgia, stay for the crass jokes!<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, How do you build a tram system up a steep slope before we invented anti-gravity boots and rock-climbing robots? Helicopters! These &#8220;mechanical dragonflies&#8221; hauled stuff up the hill to build towers and string cables so that a bunch of guys in the 1960s didn&#8217;t have to. This video is 25 minutes of your life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/2015-5-21-tramway-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tramway!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,57,52,49,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival-of-dirt","category-genius","category-idyllwild","category-tech","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}