{"id":141,"date":"2011-03-10T17:42:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/?p=141"},"modified":"2011-03-10T17:42:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:42:22","slug":"its-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/2011\/03\/10\/its-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about the end of a year (beside the excitement of the fresh start awaiting you when that clock strikes midnight on the 31<sup>st<\/sup>), is the year-end list.\u00a0 There\u2019s best movies of 2010, best albums, best books, best games, best, well, you get the idea.\u00a0 There are so many there could be a \u201cbest of the best-of lists\u201d list;\u00a0 so many, in fact, that it can take until March to check them all out.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best-of lists I\u2019ve been spending some time checking out is <em>Popular Science<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/announcements\/article\/2010-11\/best-whats-new-2010-our-100-innovations-year\">Best of What\u2019s New<\/a> list.\u00a0 The list compiles 100 of the best innovations of the year.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of my personal favorites: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/bown\/2010\/product\/evertune-bridge\">guitar<\/a> that always stays tuned; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/bown\/2010\/product\/ecoatm\">cell phone recycling kiosk<\/a> (I think of the museum of cell phones taking up space in my closet right now) ; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/bown\/2010\/product\/hydronalix-emily\">robot lifeguard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly though, more than a few of these earned a \u201cWhoa, cool!\u201d from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about the end of a year (beside the excitement of the fresh start awaiting you when that clock strikes midnight on the 31st), is the year-end list.\u00a0 There\u2019s best movies of 2010, best albums, best books, best games, best, well, you get the idea.\u00a0 There&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}