{"id":1144,"date":"2009-07-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/07\/time-enough-to-eat.html"},"modified":"2009-07-06T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:00:00","slug":"time-enough-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/07\/time-enough-to-eat.html","title":{"rendered":"Time Enough to Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.K. designers have developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/06\/29\/carnivorous-clock-eats-bugs-counts-down-to-doomsday\/\">clock that generates it&#8217;s own power by trapping and digesting insects<\/a>.  On the one hand, this is kinda cool.  After all, that biomass is just wasted when you simply smack down the little buggers and drop them in the trash.  This has a nice almost green feel to it.  On the other hand, the fact that the clock is still running means your house has an ample supply of the buggers.<\/p>\n<p>However, in what has to be a sign of the coming robot apocalypse,  the duo also claim to have designed another model which is fueled by mice.  Now I don&#8217;t want mice in my house any more than you, but I don&#8217;t have a lot of mice either.  What&#8217;s the clock going to do when it gets hungry?  I don&#8217;t really want the neighbors knocking on my door inquiring about their cats and small children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.K. designers have developed a clock that generates it&#8217;s own power by trapping and digesting insects. On the one<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/07\/time-enough-to-eat.html\" title=\"Read Time Enough to Eat\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}