{"id":11889,"date":"2015-08-12T23:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T23:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ode-to-the-tardigrade\/"},"modified":"2015-08-12T23:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T23:11:43","slug":"ode-to-the-tardigrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ode-to-the-tardigrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the\u00a0Tardigrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/artandsciencejournal.tumblr.com\/post\/126537369004\">artandsciencejournal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/5bf6307be8b19ef4eced7ba7a8a94dce\/tumblr_inline_nsvvl6Mu6W1r2gdhm_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>A Tardigrade, also known as a water bear, is a resilient creature. They can survive in some of the most extreme environments (think boiling water and almost absolute zero) and are known for their strange gait, which look like a bear\u2019s walk. Inspired after watching a feature on these little monsters in\u00a0Neil Degrasse Tyson\u2019s <i>Cosmos<\/i>, designers\u00a0Eric Ho and\u00a0Kostika Spaho got to work and created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/product\/SLS5DK33Z\/tardigrade-water-bear?li=shop-results&amp;optionId=40495141\">3D sculpture of the Tardigrade<\/a>\u00a0now available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/product\/SLS5DK33Z\/tardigrade-water-bear?li=shop-results&amp;optionId=40495141\">Shapeways<\/a>. These eight-legged creatures can even be printed in stainless steel, brass, silver, and 14k gold! Get a little trophy celebrating one of nature\u2019s most gritty inhabitants.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/7b39e37e37635707f53d6d80c9aadbe7\/tumblr_inline_nsvv15SA9O1r2gdhm_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>artandsciencejournal: A Tardigrade, also known as a water bear, is a resilient creature. They can survive in some of the most extreme environments (think boiling water and almost absolute zero) and are known for their strange gait, which look like a bear\u2019s walk. Inspired after watching a feature on these little monsters in\u00a0Neil Degrasse Tyson\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-35L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}