{"id":419,"date":"2007-03-19T01:11:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T06:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=419"},"modified":"2007-03-19T01:11:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T06:11:53","slug":"inflatable-human-beach-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2007\/03\/19\/inflatable-human-beach-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflatable Human Beach Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/gadgets\/inflatable-human-beach-ball-138380.php\">Inflatable Human Beach Ball<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t swim, but still want to join in the water games with your friends, you can now jump in a plastic bubble and bounce on the water&#8217;s surface like an insect.  But, I don&#8217;t see any effective way to control it so you&#8217;d better not try it on the open water.  Oh, and the radiation symbol will give you a nice warm and fuzzy feeling too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghaiist.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/16\/bus_envy_soon_t.php\">Photo of what China claims to be the &#8216;world&#8217;s largest bus&#8217;<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>25 meters in length, 5 doors and 300 person capacity.  It has two articulating joints to create three sections like a really small train.    I can just picture drivers getting stuck behind this monstrosity.  Like when there&#8217;s a bus stop just after an intersection and the tail end of the bus encroaches into the intersection.  And naturally, you don&#8217;t expect them to just stop after crossing the street so it backs up traffic through and across the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflatable Human Beach Ball via Digg If you can&#8217;t swim, but still want to join in the water games with your friends, you can now jump in a plastic bubble and bounce on the water&#8217;s surface like an insect. But, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2007\/03\/19\/inflatable-human-beach-ball\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-6L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}