{"id":2,"date":"2009-01-28T20:41:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T04:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2009-01-29T06:07:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T06:07:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the amusement park of Delightful toys.\u00c2\u00a0 The Blog and writings of Julie S. Porter.<\/p>\n

Here you will find progress updates on projects to recreate early computing devices, such as the calculating engines of Charles Babbage or the Antikeythera device, and early geared assembly from about 100B.C.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the Egyptian hall of mystery.<\/p>\n

Or you might step over the the midway and see progress or plans for Band organs or the intractly carved European Fairgrounds organs.<\/p>\n

There is also a steampunk styled watch and clock shop for making these attractions.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This is the mainenance yard.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot happens here.<\/p>\n

We will not say much about Robert-Houdin’s magic shop.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course the results of the illusions are intended for the delight of the audience.<\/p>\n

What would an amusement park be, without the philosophy of the Fortune tellers ally. Hanging Sward Lane, is where\u00c2\u00a0 you might find the Ghost of John Dee or Descartes.<\/p>\n

Rocket row, is\u00c2\u00a0 the\u00c2\u00a0 place to park your dirigible.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This is a practical area, where rocket are launched.\u00c2\u00a0 S.E.T.I is discussed, and the aesthetics of the future are analyzed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the amusement park of Delightful toys.\u00c2\u00a0 The Blog and writings of Julie S. Porter. Here you will find progress updates on projects to recreate early computing devices, such as the calculating engines of Charles Babbage or the Antikeythera device, and early geared assembly from about 100B.C.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the Egyptian hall of mystery. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delectra.com\/toys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}