{"id":1002,"date":"2008-05-16T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2008-05-16T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T22:41:02","slug":"google-honors-the-invention-of-the-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Google honors the invention of the Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"299\" src=\"\/media\/GoogleLaser.jpg\" height=\"115\" style=\"width: 299px; height: 115px\" \/>If you go to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google website<\/a> today, you&#8217;ll see that their logo has been altered to look as it has been created by various colored laser-beams, this to honor the first succesful demonstration of a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laser\">laser<\/a>, 48 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>I checked both the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trumpf.com\">TRUMPF<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dilas.com\">DILAS<\/a> websites, but neither one of them mentioned it &#8211; perhaps they&#8217;re waiting for the 50th anniversary in 2010 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>(Hat tip to Dan Leafblad of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcspacepirates.com\">Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a> for this info &#8211; thanks Dan!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you go to the Google website today, you&#8217;ll see that their logo has been altered to look as it has been created by various colored laser-beams, this to honor the first succesful demonstration of a\u00a0laser, 48 years ago today. I checked both the TRUMPF and DILAS websites, but neither one of them mentioned it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}