{"id":6383,"date":"2019-09-29T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2019-11-28T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T21:38:12","slug":"tower-of-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/29\/tower-of-babylon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower of Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Griffin and Maggie built an astonishing tower in the basement.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20190929_132918_003_edited-1.jpg?resize=474%2C632&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20190929_132918_003_edited-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20190929_132918_003_edited-1-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20190929_132918_003_edited-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20190929_132918_003_edited-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20190929_132918_003_edited-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20190929_132918_003_edited-1-scaled.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20190929_132918_003_edited-1-scaled.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption>Proud contractors!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And then it fell down. Click below to watch the collapse in slow motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignleft\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20190929_132918_005.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>The tower falls!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(For some reason, this reminded me of the great Ted Chiang story, <em>Tower of Babylon<\/em>. You should read it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffin and Maggie built an astonishing tower in the basement. And then it fell down. Click below to watch the collapse in slow motion. (For some reason, this reminded me of the great Ted Chiang story, Tower of Babylon. You should read it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[3,45,54],"tags":[79,81,51,23],"class_list":["post-6383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","category-maggie","category-photo","tag-griffin","tag-maggie","tag-pictures","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6403,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}