{"id":5422,"date":"2012-08-15T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2012-08-15T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:45:55","slug":"living-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/15\/living-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Living bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.longnow.org\/02012\/08\/14\/indias-living-bridges\/\">Living bridges in India<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/root-bridges-cherrapungee-2239-large_slideshow.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"root-bridges-cherrapungee.2239.large_slideshow\" width=\"529\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5423\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they\u2019re extraordinarily strong [&#8230;] some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the people of the villages around Cherrapunji may be well over 500 years old.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Health-and-safety commissars in the West would no doubt have a fit over the idea of these in the USA or UK.  But one wonders if the same techniques could be used by artists to create giant Cthulhu-esque living structures?  It&#8217;d certainly go way beyond a timid weaving of willow-wands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/risky.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"risky\" width=\"316\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5425\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living bridges in India&#8230; &#8220;The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/15\/living-bridges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}