{"id":3013,"date":"2013-10-07T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/10\/07\/but-instead-they-decided-to-build-the-great-wheel\/"},"modified":"2013-10-07T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T07:00:01","slug":"but-instead-they-decided-to-build-the-great-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20131007-01\/?p=3013","title":{"rendered":"But instead, they decided to build the Great Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I dreamed that Seattle was building its own version of the Eiffel Tower. Just like the original, except that it was also a thrill ride similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ride-extravaganza.com\/intermediate\/roundup\/\"> Round Up<\/a> but you are seated. <\/p>\n<p> It turns out that the city of Seattle accepted my subconscious&#8217;s instructions to replicate another city&#8217;s famous landmark, but the message wasn&#8217;t received loud and clear. Instead of making an Eiffel Tower knock-off, we decided to make <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlegreatwheel.com\/\"> a London Eye knock-off<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamed that Seattle was building its own version of the Eiffel Tower. Just like the original, except that it was also a thrill ride similar to Round Up but you are seated. It turns out that the city of Seattle accepted my subconscious&#8217;s instructions to replicate another city&#8217;s famous landmark, but the message wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,103],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-dream","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I dreamed that Seattle was building its own version of the Eiffel Tower. Just like the original, except that it was also a thrill ride similar to Round Up but you are seated. It turns out that the city of Seattle accepted my subconscious&#8217;s instructions to replicate another city&#8217;s famous landmark, but the message wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}