{"id":26946,"date":"2011-04-12T03:47:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T10:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=26946"},"modified":"2011-04-10T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T08:04:50","slug":"elektro-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/26946","title":{"rendered":"Elektro: The robot that smokes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T35A3g_GvSg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Seven feet tall, weighing 265 pounds, humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words, smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons and move his head and arms.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Westinghouse&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elektro\" target=\"_blank\">Elektro<\/a><\/em> from his appearance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1939_New_York_World%27s_Fair\" target=\"_blank\">1939 World&#8217;s Fair.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>More info (and construction diagram) <a href=\"http:\/\/bullyscomics.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/elektro-2-robot-boogaloo.html\"  target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"100\" height=\"130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YceKb_yx6bk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Meat Beat Manifesto: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/hbif7p\"target=\"_blank\">I am Electro,<\/a> feat. Elektro<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Elektro: The robot that smokes!\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/26946\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Seven feet tall, weighing 265 pounds, humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words, smoke cigarettes, blow up balloons and move his head and arms.&#8217; Westinghouse&#8217;s Elektro from his appearance at the 1939 World&#8217;s Fair. More info (and construction diagram) here. Meat Beat Manifesto: I am Electro, feat. Elektro Tweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,83,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-history","category-exhibitions","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26946"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26995,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946\/revisions\/26995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}