{"id":1429,"date":"2010-06-15T07:29:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2010-06-16T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T20:45:45","slug":"flipper-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"Flipper Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Hong Kong, cars drive on the left while in the rest of China, they drive on the right. If you&#8217;re building a bridge between the two, you&#8217;ve got to come up with a clever way to switch lanes without disruption or accident. Behold, the flipper:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1430\" title=\"Flipper\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Flipper-440x330.jpg\" alt=\"Flipper\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Flipper-440x330.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Flipper-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Flipper.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1431\" title=\"Flipper 2\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Flipper-2-440x259.jpg\" alt=\"Flipper 2\" width=\"440\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Flipper-2-440x259.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Flipper-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only way that could be more cool is if one of the lanes went into a tunnel under the water or corkscrewed over the other lane in a rollercoaster\/Mario Kart fashion. Lots more\u00a0<a style=\"color: #660000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; border-bottom-width: 1px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlarchitects.nl\/django\/slideshow\/21\/\">on the NL Architects site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/10\/06\/the-flipper-bridge\">kottke.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Hong Kong, cars drive on the left while in the rest of China, they drive on the right. If you&#8217;re building a bridge between the two, you&#8217;ve got to come up with a clever way to switch lanes without disruption or accident. Behold, the flipper: The only way that could be more cool is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[153,154],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-architecture","tag-bridges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}