{"id":3335,"date":"2007-10-06T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/06\/the-colour-of\/"},"modified":"2013-03-31T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:23:58","slug":"the-colour-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/06\/the-colour-of\/","title":{"rendered":"the colour of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up these crayons at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gepower.com\/businesses\/ge_wind_energy\/en\/\">GE Wind<\/a> stand at <a href=\"http:\/\/canwea.ca\/\">CanWEA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ge ecomagination crayola\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/gecrayola1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, those really are the colour names &#8211; <em>Purification Purple, Evolution Orange, Mother Earth Brown, Cleaner Coal Black, Solar Yellow, Revitalized Red, Hybrid Green, Clear Water Blue<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kids.ecomagination.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ge ecomagination crayola\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/gecrayola3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is there a connection between wind power and crayons? Wait until I don my polyester leisure jacket, James Burke-style, until I tell you: Edwin Binney, inventor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crayola.com\/\">Crayola<\/a>, had a daughter (Dorothy) who married <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_P._Putnam\">George P. Putnam<\/a>. Putnam went on (with only a short detour into promoting then marrying the person for whom the word &#8220;aviatrix&#8221; is most often used, Amelia Earhart) to help create the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wind-works.org\/photos\/Smith-PutnamPhotos.html\">Smith-Putnam wind turbine<\/a> (itself perhaps the most heroically unsuccessful story in the history of wind energy).Wind turbines; crayons: it&#8217;s all connected, see?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should&#8217;ve picked up a bunch of these at the show, as even a ratty package of them is <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Rare-Crayola-crayons-The-Colors-of-ecomagination_W0QQitemZ280158419860QQihZ018QQcategoryZ28109QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">going for over $30 on eBay<\/a>. I&#8217;m glad that mine are already on their way to a 4 year old in Ohio, where they will be appreciated more than by any collector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up these crayons at the GE Wind stand at CanWEA: Yes, those really are the colour names &#8211; Purification Purple, Evolution Orange, Mother Earth Brown, Cleaner Coal Black, Solar Yellow, Revitalized Red, Hybrid Green, Clear Water Blue. Is there a connection between wind power and crayons? Wait until I don my polyester leisure [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[933,932,341,2650,2649,59],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","category-wind-things","tag-connections","tag-crayons","tag-ebay","tag-putnam","tag-smith","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-RN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","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=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8417,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}