{"id":126,"date":"2010-02-28T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T02:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2021-05-20T08:31:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:31:06","slug":"city-on-caterpillar-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/city-on-caterpillar-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"City on Caterpillar Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29844928@N07\/4368522936\/in\/set-72157623336807855\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-130\" title=\"Lego-Crawler-Town\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Lego-Crawler-Town-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Lego-Crawler-Town-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Lego-Crawler-Town.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This has nothing to do with astronomy or Universe Sandbox, but as a LEGO fan, I&#8217;m incredibly inspired by this creation:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brothers-brick.com\/2010\/02\/19\/crawler-town-brings-the-city-to-you\/\">http:\/\/www.brothers-brick.com\/2010\/02\/19\/crawler-town-brings-the-city-to-you\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which seems to be directly inspired by fictional Traction Cities from Philip Reeve&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Mortal Engines Quartet<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> series of books:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traction_City\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traction_City<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think the idea of massive, movable cities is fascinating to think about.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brothers-brick.com\/\">Brother&#8217;s Brick<\/a>, an excellent LEGO blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with astronomy or Universe Sandbox, but as a LEGO fan, I&#8217;m incredibly inspired by this creation: http:\/\/www.brothers-brick.com\/2010\/02\/19\/crawler-town-brings-the-city-to-you\/ Which seems to be directly inspired by fictional Traction Cities from Philip Reeve&#8217;s&nbsp;Mortal Engines Quartet series of books: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traction_City I think the idea of massive, movable cities is fascinating to think about. Source: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}