{"id":726,"date":"2007-09-10T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2007-09-10T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T19:57:10","slug":"doh-the-simpsons-invade-the-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Doh!  The Simpsons invade the Space Elevator Games!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/SimpsonsAnchor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_SimpsonsAnchor.jpg\"  height=\"124\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 124px\" \/><\/a>Who knew?\u00a0 Ben Shelef, CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\">Spaceward<\/a> (the umbrella organization organizing the Space Elevator Games) has enlisted the help of Homer and Marge Simpson.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to meet them at this year&#8217;s Games!<\/p>\n<p>Homer and Marge are shown at the anchor station for the Climber\/Power-Beaming competition.\u00a0 Homer is standing on the anchor plate while Marge is next to the Belay line.\u00a0 In between them (but closer to Marge) is the Anti-Rotation wire, mounted on a damper and some weights.<\/p>\n<p>And I just hope that&#8217;s not a Canadian Beer that Homer is holding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on the picture for a larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew?\u00a0 Ben Shelef, CEO of Spaceward (the umbrella organization organizing the Space Elevator Games) has enlisted the help of Homer and Marge Simpson.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to meet them at this year&#8217;s Games! Homer and Marge are shown at the anchor station for the Climber\/Power-Beaming competition.\u00a0 Homer is standing on the anchor plate while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}