{"id":133,"date":"2007-01-18T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/index.php\/2007\/01\/18\/war-tank-on-one-wheel-operated-by-one-man\/"},"modified":"2007-01-18T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T01:53:08","slug":"war-tank-on-one-wheel-operated-by-one-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2007\/war-tank-on-one-wheel-operated-by-one-man","title":{"rendered":"War Tank on One Wheel Operated by One Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fighting wars... with fun!\" id=\"image132\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/bigwheel.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">It&#8217;s been a while since I posted some Minuti\u00e6 from the real world, but I&#8217;m gonna get back in the swing of things with <a title=\"Wheeeeeee! I'm fighting!\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.modernmechanix.com\/2007\/01\/17\/war-tank-on-one-wheel-operated-by-one-man\/\">this awesomeness<\/a> from the evercool <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today!\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.modernmechanix.com\/2007\/01\/17\/war-tank-on-one-wheel-operated-by-one-man\/\">Modern Mechanix<\/a> weblog. This particular oddity makes it look <em>fun<\/em> to fight a war! The best part is that the thing is a giant wheel, but it has these legs in the front that it uses to vault over obstacles, presumably like barbed wire and trenches.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><a title=\"THE BIG WHEEL!\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Wheel_(comics)\">Big Wheel<\/a> is unfortunately not interviewed in the article.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Hey, can you imagine how loud it must be in there? I mean, aside from being inside the cabin with the engine, <em>your head is at the center of two parabolic dishes that focus the noise on your ears.<\/em> Also, please note that you can steer <em>or<\/em> shoot.  Why did it take so long to put the triggers on the steering apparatus of vehicles?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted some Minuti\u00e6 from the real world, but I&#8217;m gonna get back in the swing of things with this awesomeness from the evercool Modern Mechanix weblog. This particular oddity makes it look fun to fight a war! The best part is that the thing is a giant wheel, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2007\/war-tank-on-one-wheel-operated-by-one-man\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;War Tank on One Wheel Operated by One Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-shock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}