{"id":787,"date":"2006-12-19T16:53:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2006-12-19T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:53:53","slug":"like_something_out_of_james_bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/19\/like_something_out_of_james_bo\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Something Out of James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/6189371.stm\">this<\/a> for a science-fiction idea come to life: there&#8217;s a village high up in the Italian Alps that goes without sunlight for three months out of the year, so the townsfolks have erected a giant mirror to reflect some rays into the town&#8217;s piazza during the winter. It even tracks the sun under computer control to maximize the usable light yield. What a stroke of genius&#8230; so long as there are safeguards to prevent some evil genius from refining the mirror&#8217;s focus into a coherent heat-beam and zapping people into ashes, of course&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how&#8217;s this for a science-fiction idea come to life: there&#8217;s a village high up in the Italian Alps that goes without sunlight for three months out of the year, so the townsfolks have erected a giant mirror to reflect some rays into the town&#8217;s piazza during the winter. It even tracks the sun under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}