{"id":18779,"date":"2020-01-31T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T19:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=18779"},"modified":"2020-01-31T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T03:25:06","slug":"wind-powered-sculptures-walk-across-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/01\/wind-powered-sculptures-walk-across-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind-powered sculptures walk across beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is more whimsy than science, but I thought this article about some amazing wind-powered walking sculptures was really interesting. Dutch artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strandbeest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theo Jansen<\/a> creates stunning wind-powered, walking sculptures useing plastic yellow tubes to build his \u201cskeletons\u201d \u2013 after that, the sculptures are able to walk on their own with a little help from the wind. You can see pictures and a video <a href=\"https:\/\/Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates stunning wind-powered, walking sculptures that are just amazing to watch! The artist uses plastic yellow tubes to build his \u201cskeletons\u201d \u2013 after that, the sculptures are able to walk on their own with a little help from the wind and seem like living creatures!\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/01\/sculptures-that-walk-on-the-wind5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18780\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/01\/sculptures-that-walk-on-the-wind5-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/01\/sculptures-that-walk-on-the-wind5-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/01\/sculptures-that-walk-on-the-wind5-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/01\/sculptures-that-walk-on-the-wind5.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is more whimsy than science, but I thought this article about some amazing wind-powered walking sculptures was really interesting. Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates stunning wind-powered, walking sculptures useing plastic yellow tubes to build his \u201cskeletons\u201d \u2013 after that, the sculptures are able to walk on their own with a little help from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":18780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18784,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18779\/revisions\/18784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}