{"id":1848,"date":"2009-08-23T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2009-08-23T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T19:00:14","slug":"boffins-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/boffins-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Boffins in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Muffett at Dropsafe on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crypticide.com\/dropsafe\/article\/755\">sound mirrors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBritain is a hothouse of brains and creativity, doubly-so for having to make-do-and-mend from underinvesment and underappreciation, and this leads to startling solutions that fuel incredible innovation &#8211; even if most of those subsequently flop for lack of business nous. <\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, these innovations leave footprints in the sand. Bletchley Park is onesuch. Another of which I have long known a little, but never known a lot, are the sound mirrors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crypticide.com\/dropsafe\/article\/755\">More<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Muffett at Dropsafe on sound mirrors. Britain is a hothouse of brains and creativity, doubly-so for having to make-do-and-mend from underinvesment and underappreciation, and this leads to startling solutions that fuel incredible innovation &#8211; even if most of those subsequently flop for lack of business nous. Occasionally, these innovations leave footprints in the sand. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound-mirrors","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}