{"id":84492,"date":"2020-05-11T08:09:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=84492"},"modified":"2020-05-11T08:14:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:14:04","slug":"w-heath-robinson-expects-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/w-heath-robinson-expects-an-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"W. Heath Robinson expects an apology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spare room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a Heath Robinson device, everything has a clear purpose, no matter how strange it appears. For example, there is a clearly discernable logic to the profusion of cables, pulleys and bellows in his “Spare Room,” above, from this year’s HR calendar. It may not be realistic<\/i> \u2014 I wouldn’t want to sleep in that bed \u2014 but everything makes sense. (The same is true of the inventions of Heath Robinson’s American counterpart, Rube Goldberg.) Comparing Neil Ferguson’s incomprehensible mathematical model to a Heath Robinson device<\/a> slanders Robinson.<\/p>\n

Bonus calendar picture: Uncle Lubin in color.<\/p>\n

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Uncle Lubin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a Heath Robinson device, everything has a clear purpose, no matter how strange it appears. For example, there is a clearly discernable logic to the profusion of cables, pulleys and bellows in his “Spare Room,” above, from this year’s HR calendar. It may not be realistic \u2014 I wouldn’t want to sleep in that … Continue reading “W. Heath Robinson expects an apology”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-screen-captures","category-decline-and-fall","category-humor-and-horror","category-mathematics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-lYM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84495,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84492\/revisions\/84495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}