{"id":297,"date":"2004-03-26T10:47:38","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T16:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2005-02-04T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T07:46:13","slug":"transparent-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/26\/transparent-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"transparent concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/optics.org\/articles\/news\/10\/3\/10\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Concrete casts new light in dull rooms<\/a> &#8211; so cool!  Light transmitting concrete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concrete casts new light in dull rooms &#8211; so cool! 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It was also really great to use so much South African content! Thanks to everyone who sent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":183,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/17\/ascii-and-other-text-toys\/","url_meta":{"origin":297,"position":4},"title":"ASCII and other Text Toys","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 September 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"ASCIIMoviePlayerSample. This is so cool!In other news: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is in the rghit pclae. 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