{"id":6882,"date":"2016-02-17T03:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2016-02-17T03:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:53:25","slug":"some-flight-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=6882","title":{"rendered":"Some flight reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6883\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=6883\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6883\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1942-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Work In Progress - Nickname: Drone\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1942-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1942-440x440.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1942-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1942-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work In Progress &#8211; Nickname: Drone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Been reading about a project to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolisblog.org\/2016\/01\/a-space-that-is-not-battlefield.html\" target=\"_blank\">a drone-proof city on Polis<\/a>, which started as, &#8220;[A] semi-ironic architectural response to drone warfare.&#8221; As a though experiment it&#8217;s really interesting, but as a cityscape &#8211; my feeling is that it can&#8217;t help but feel oppressive. On the flip side, you can have a beautiful and open city but if the state is oppressive\/aggressive then the citizenry are still going to notice, and if it&#8217;s not your state that is the aggressor, perhaps it&#8217;s the only option. I&#8217;ve been studying drone warfare for a while now. Those of you on <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/thejewellist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> have seen the work in progress of my drone piece, which will be heading to Canberra in March. Be prepared..!<\/p>\n<p>The other reading I have noted to share is courtesy of that old standard, Kit and Caboodle. I know, been a while, huh? Cate, the coordinator over there <a href=\"http:\/\/kitandcaboodle.ning.com\/profiles\/blogs\/at-last-a-reason-to-be-a-jeweller-again-thanks-to-stephen-foley-s?xg_source=activity\" target=\"_blank\">popped this on her blog<\/a>; it&#8217;s about a new &#8216;mining&#8217; (reclaiming) technique for gold, using acetic acid. Yup, vinegar. Awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about drones and gold. What a match!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,49,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materiality","category-publications","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6884,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions\/6884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}