{"id":488,"date":"2006-08-07T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2006-08-07T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T14:03:13","slug":"and-so-the-at-st-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"And So, The AT-ST Was Born."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maj.com\/gallery\/zibredlektab\/other\/atst.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/vehicle\/atst\/index.html\">All Terrain Scout Transport<\/a>. The AT-ST. The chicken walker, as I called it when I was but a lad. And what a machine it was. Why I remember back in the day, the AT-ST was the hot new thing to kill rebels in. None of them new-fangled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/vehicle\/atat\/index.html\">All Terrain Armored Transports<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Ok that&#8217;s enough of that. What I&#8217;m really writing about is that someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oVwbUljGs3g&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebornrich%2Eorg%2Fentry%2Fwearable%2Drobot%2Dsuit%2F\">made one<\/a>. It&#8217;s 3.4 meters (11.15 feet) tall, weighs about a ton, and can move at about 1.5 km\/h (.93 mph). On top of all that, it shoots little foam balls out of it&#8217;s two side-mounted airguns! How awesome is that?<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, they cost around $300,000, and only ship to Japan. Oh well, just another reason to move there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah yes, the All Terrain Scout Transport. The AT-ST. The chicken walker, as I called it when I was but a lad. And what a machine it was. Why I remember back in the day, the AT-ST was the hot new thing to kill rebels in. None of them new-fangled All Terrain Armored Transports&#8230;. Ok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,21],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-life-in-general","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}