{"id":9682,"date":"2007-08-13T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2007-08-13T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T18:52:09","slug":"jake-von-slatt-in-the-news-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9682","title":{"rendered":"Jake von Slatt in the News (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/digJake.jpg\">Our pal Jake von Slatt continues with his plans for world media domination, this week getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklydig.com\/news-opinions\/feature\/200708\/jake-von-slatt\" target=\"new\">ye ol&#8217; shout out<\/a> in Weekly Dig, a Boston entertainment rag. He appears in a piece entitled &#8220;Good Bostonians.&#8221; I like the way the piece opens: &#8220;People suck. Most of them, anyway. Especially around here. Or maybe not&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> And the piece contains some not-so-subtle hints of several of Jake&#8217;s next projects, including: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For now, the burner &#8212; a hair-dryer-shaped thing made out of pieces of an electric belt motor, an old metal bed-frame, the fuel injector from a BMW and a bunch of scavenged computer parts &#8212; is lying in several pieces in the garage. When it&#8217;s done, its creator says, it should be able to melt cast iron at 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I think it will make spectacular flames. And the internet loves spectacular flames,&#8221; he says, grinning. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Yes we do. Indeed we do. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our pal Jake von Slatt continues with his plans for world media domination, this week getting ye ol&#8217; shout out in Weekly Dig, a Boston entertainment rag. He appears in a piece entitled &#8220;Good Bostonians.&#8221; I like the way the piece opens: &#8220;People suck. Most of them, anyway. Especially around here. Or maybe not&#8230;&#8221; And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jake von Slatt in the News (Again)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}