{"id":142,"date":"2011-04-09T19:47:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T00:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2011-04-09T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T00:47:27","slug":"clockwork-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/clockwork-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Clockwork Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon a graphic novel about &#8220;The Turk,&#8221; a chess playing automaton. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clockwork-comics.com\/\" class=\"extlink\">The Clockwork Game<\/a>, by Jane Irwin is an ongoing work with updates on Thursdays.<\/p>\n<p>Not coincidentally, this site is named after a book written about The Turk.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float:left; margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=inanireaso-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=1170784305\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LEGO lends itself well to building automatons. Creating various forms of motion for both practical and artistic pursuits is very straight-forward. Having such a flexible, modular system frees your mind allowing you to focus on the creative aspects of your projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon a graphic novel about &#8220;The Turk,&#8221; a chess playing automaton. The Clockwork Game, by Jane Irwin is an ongoing work with updates on Thursdays. Not coincidentally, this site is named after a book written about The Turk. LEGO lends itself well to building automatons. Creating various forms of motion for both practical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/clockwork-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clockwork Game<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digressions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1yjzF-2i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}