{"id":357,"date":"2009-05-10T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T21:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2009-05-11T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T00:58:48","slug":"thats-when-their-eyes-got-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/10\/thats-when-their-eyes-got-big\/","title":{"rendered":"that&#8217;s when their eyes got big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that time last year when I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/26\/i-still-cant-believe-we-nearly-rolled-down-the-steps\/\">a manhole cover with the word TELEPORT on it<\/a>. (Or maybe you didn&#8217;t, which is why I linked back to it just there.) And then I couldn&#8217;t find it later.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauraweb.com\/images\/teleport.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I thought I found it again, except that I&#8217;m not <i>exactly<\/i> sure that this is the same one I saw before. I could swear that I saw the other one a few blocks away, but I haven&#8217;t walked that way to work in a while.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, it never even occurred to me that this could be Art, but Jonathan suggested it might be so the last time I passed it I looked verrrrry closely. And it looks as solid and authentic as any other manhole cover. Plus, it&#8217;s right near a big old Verizon building and there are other manhole covers in the vicinity that feature the same hexagonal patterns (though they all read BELL TEL or have a bell on them).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the boring explanation for its existence, though. I&#8217;d prefer it if you could <i>really<\/i> teleport. And, as Jonathan pointed out, there are little rocketships in between the hexagons. Interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that time last year when I saw a manhole cover with the word TELEPORT on it. (Or maybe you didn&#8217;t, which is why I linked back to it just there.) And then I couldn&#8217;t find it later. A couple of weeks ago I thought I found it again, except that I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,28,40,41],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brooklyn","tag-life","tag-scifi","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}