{"id":17772,"date":"2025-02-20T15:19:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=17772"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:19:50","slug":"snow-loving-solar-marble-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/20\/snow-loving-solar-marble-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow-loving Solar Marble Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"540\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 540 \/ 540;\" width=\"540\" controls src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SolarMarbleMachine.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Martin Raynsford \/ Solarbotics Solar Marble Machine loving glare off deep snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Still going strong after <a href=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/05\/solar-marble-machine-at-2x-speed\/\">more than a decade<\/a> in the front window, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarbotics.com\/product\/kmms\">Solar Marble Machine<\/a> has been running flat out all day because of the glare from the deep snow outside. It might normally do one click a day, if any at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still going strong after more than a decade in the front window, the Solar Marble Machine has been running flat out all day because of the glare from the deep snow outside. It might normally do one click a day, if any at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[2670,977,1547,2819,1093],"class_list":["post-17772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-decade","tag-marble","tag-solar","tag-solarengine","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4CE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17774,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772\/revisions\/17774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}