{"id":540,"date":"2005-08-29T05:57:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T10:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=540"},"modified":"2005-08-29T05:57:30","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T10:57:30","slug":"on-the-use-of-hamsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"On the Use of Hamsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The things students will do.  One built a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/08\/29\/hamster-charger\/\">hamster-powered cell phone charger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Peter] Ash told Ananova: &#8220;I thought the wheel could be made to do something useful so I connected a system of gears and a turbine.&#8221; He then patched the output to his mobe&#8217;s charger and voila! &#8211; free hamster energy at around thirty minutes&#8217; talktime for every two hamster wheel minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The things students will do. One built a hamster-powered cell phone charger. [Peter] Ash told Ananova: &#8220;I thought the wheel could be made to do something useful so I connected a system of gears and a turbine.&#8221; He then patched the output to his mobe&#8217;s charger and voila! &#8211; free hamster energy at around thirty<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=540\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Use of Hamsters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[998,396],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hamsters","tag-silly","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}