{"id":1383,"date":"2019-06-14T17:47:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T00:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2019-06-14T17:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T00:47:23","slug":"machinery-and-nerdery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2019\/06\/machinery-and-nerdery","title":{"rendered":"machinery and nerdery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/albums\/72157709086491331\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_5248-1024x1021.jpg\" alt=\"a small metal goblet looking thing\" width=\"700\" height=\"698\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_5248-1024x1021.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_5248-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_5248-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_5248-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_5248-700x698.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last time I went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprecision.org\/\">American Precision Museum<\/a>, about twelve years ago, my mom was still alive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qISEcNDzoyM\">I made this little video of her<\/a> pushing a button to make the machines run, and it made us both happy. This time I was meeting the father of an internet friend who is the guy who keeps all the machines running. He gave me an epic after-hours tour and seemed as happy to keep telling me about all the weird stuff they had there as I was to learn about it all. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/albums\/72157709086491331\">I took a random assortment of photos<\/a> (mostly of cranks, why?) and I figured I&#8217;d leave a link to them here. The picture above is a teeny little drinking cup type thing which I watched John make out of a solid piece of metal using one of these machines. Hope you enjoy any of it as much as I did. The museum is in Windsor Vermont and they have discount passes to it at the library in town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2019\/06\/machinery-and-nerdery\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to machinery and nerdery\"><p>The last time I went to the American Precision Museum, about twelve years ago, my mom was still alive and I made this little video of her pushing a button to make the machines run, and it made us both happy. This time I was meeting the father of an internet friend who is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[623,624],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-americanprecisionmuseum","tag-machines","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}