{"id":108148,"date":"2016-03-26T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T11:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/26\/but-ive-never-seen-the-icarus-story-as-a-lesson\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T11:33:39","slug":"but-ive-never-seen-the-icarus-story-as-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/26\/but-ive-never-seen-the-icarus-story-as-a-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But I\u2019ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Randall Munroe (<a href=\"https:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/30\/\" target=\"_blank\">xkcd What if?<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/did-tony-stark-make-this-post\" target=\"_blank\">#did tony stark make this post<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/i%27m-laughing-%27it%27s-not-a-lesson-on-hubris%21%21-it%27s-a-lesson-on-how-the-little-shit-should%27ve-built-it-better%27\" target=\"_blank\">#i\u2019m laughing \u2018it\u2019s not a lesson on hubris!! it\u2019s a lesson on how the little shit should\u2019ve built it better\u2019<\/a>\u00a0(via <a href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/moWTSSpAvYhDbywk-Ip14mQ\" target=\"_blank\">@kitcox<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I\u2019ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive. Randall Munroe (xkcd What if?) #did tony stark make this post#i\u2019m laughing \u2018it\u2019s not a lesson on hubris!! it\u2019s a lesson on how the little shit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/26\/but-ive-never-seen-the-icarus-story-as-a-lesson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3673,3441,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}