{"id":5766,"date":"2010-08-21T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2010-08-21T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T20:09:49","slug":"thumbs-up-for-offshore-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/21\/thumbs-up-for-offshore-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs up for Offshore Wind!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to work out how tall a wind turbine is at a distance, you can use simple proportion:<br \/>\n<object data=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/similar.svg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\" title=\"proportion\"><\/object><br \/>\nIf I hold my thumb at arm&#8217;s length, it&#8217;s about a metre from my eye. The tallest a turbine would appear from shore would be equivalent to the height of the top joint of my thumb. That&#8217;s pretty small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to work out how tall a wind turbine is at a distance, you can use simple proportion: If I hold my thumb at arm&#8217;s length, it&#8217;s about a metre from my eye. The tallest a turbine would appear from shore would be equivalent to the height of the top joint of my [&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],"tags":[2201,1540,1855,1038,59],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-distance","tag-offshore","tag-svg","tag-thumb","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1v0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","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=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}