{"id":3196,"date":"2014-12-05T22:55:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T22:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:28:22","slug":"terrifying-feat-accomplished-with-suction-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/terrifying-feat-accomplished-with-suction-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying feat accomplished with suction cups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/15769033889\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7504\/15769033889_a40687e011_z.jpg\" alt=\"Suction cups\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While walking by the construction for LinkedIn&#8217;s new offices at 222 Second Street, I happened to notice some windows were being lifted up on a crane. How do you get a pane of glass from the street to 12 floors up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look closely: the only thing holding that windows is eight suction cups. That&#8217;s right, the technology behind your favorite childhood bath toys is now being used to hoist enormous panes of glass over a busy street. Let&#8217;s hope the workers remembered to lick them first for a better grip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking by the construction for LinkedIn&#8217;s new offices at 222 Second Street, I happened to notice some windows were being lifted up on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Terrifying feat accomplished with suction cups - MrEricSir.com","description":"While walking by the construction for LinkedIn's new offices at 222 Second Street, I happened to notice some windows were being lifted up on a crane. How do you"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1042,1041,1039,202,1040],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-construction","tag-physics","tag-scary","tag-soma","tag-suction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10065,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/10065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}