{"id":53,"date":"2011-03-09T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-03-09T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:43:16","slug":"arthropod-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Arthropod Ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthrobots.com\/about.html\">Tom Hardwidge<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/1800recycling.com\/2011\/03\/steampunk-insects-recycle-bullets\/\">ammunition-and-clockwork insect creations from a recycling blog<\/a>. Not only are they beautiful, he has given them their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthrobots.com\/gallery.html\">own taxonomy!<\/a> Adding scientific names to anything always strikes a chord with me, so here are some of Tom&#8217;s beautified bullets:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Roborthoptera aurum, by Tom Hardwidge\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_cmQijamQSQo\/TU7mSriqnLI\/AAAAAAAAAjk\/Y_Mjmgh2k04\/s1600\/l_roborthoptera-aurum-01.jpg\" alt=\"roborthoptera aurum, by Tom Hardwidge\" width=\"483\" height=\"503\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roborthoptera aurum, by Tom Hardwidge<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Coleopteroid cruris, by Tom Hardwidge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arthrobots.com\/images\/l_coleopteroid-cruris-04.jpg\" alt=\"Coleopteroid cruris, by Tom Hardwidge\" width=\"480\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coleopteroid cruris, by Tom Hardwidge<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mecharaneae primus, by Tom Hardwidge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arthrobots.com\/images\/l_mecharaneae-primus-02.jpg\" alt=\"Mecharaneae primus, by Tom Hardwidge\" width=\"481\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mecharaneae primus, by Tom Hardwidge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The insects come in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthrobots.com\/images\/l_presentation-box-01.jpg\">classy wooden boxes<\/a> with accompanying sketches and scientific data. I do wish people would retire the word &#8220;steampunk&#8221; to describe these lovely sculptures. They&#8217;re not especially Victorian, and seem to be on the whole more whimsical than science fictional.\u00a0 However, there is one thing I will admit they do have in common with steampunk makers- they are lovingly hand-made.\u00a0 May a brass insect be the fate of every ammunition housing!<\/p>\n<h5><em>thanks for the tip, Rosa!<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely article about Tom Hardwidge&#8216;s ammunition-and-clockwork insect creations from a recycling blog. Not only are they beautiful, he has given them their own taxonomy! Adding scientific names to anything always strikes a chord with me, so here are some of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=53\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,10],"tags":[32,54,55,505,56,510,506,57,53],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-insect","category-spider","tag-beetle","tag-clockwork","tag-grasshopper","tag-insect","tag-rosa","tag-sculpture","tag-spider","tag-steampunk","tag-tom-hardwidge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}