{"id":10,"date":"2006-09-28T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2016-05-19T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T09:56:13","slug":"how-to-build-your-own-blue-obelisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/2006\/09\/28\/how-to-build-your-own-blue-obelisk\/","title":{"rendered":"How to build your own Blue Obelisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in just ten minutes (it takes longer to blog about it).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure a lot of you were dead jealous when you saw the wonderful Blue Obelisks given by PMR to Bob, Geoff and me. Well, don&#8217;t despair. Here&#8217;s what to do:<\/p>\n<p>First, get two A4 sheets of thick, stable paper, one in a nice blue, the other one in a color of your choice. Also, get some paper glue and a pair of scissors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/IMG_1835.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/IMG_1835-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1835\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/IMG_1835-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/IMG_1835-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/IMG_1835-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next, download the following PDF documents to your hard disk. They contain printable paper models of an obelisk and a foundation.<\/p>\n<p>[[download:obelisk-small.pdf:icon::]]<\/p>\n<p>[[download:foundation.pdf:icon::]]<\/p>\n<p>Now, print the obelisk model on the blue paper and the foundation model on the other piece. Use your scissors to cut out the models. Use a moderatly sharp item to score the models along the printed lines. Here is what you get:<\/p>\n<p>[[image:bao-02.png::center:0]]<\/p>\n<p>Glue things together:<\/p>\n<p>[[image:bao-03.png::center:0]]<\/p>\n<p>[[image:bao-04.png::center:0]]<\/p>\n<p>Finally, glue the Blue Obelisk on top of its foundation and ready you are:<\/p>\n<p>[[image:bao-05.png::center:0]]<\/p>\n<p>Your colleagues will envy you for this beautiful piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in just ten minutes (it takes longer to blog about it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-obelisk","category-fun","category-open-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}