{"id":293,"date":"2010-10-06T04:39:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T20:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=293"},"modified":"2010-10-06T04:39:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T20:39:22","slug":"fortune-favours-the-prepared-mind-great-accidental-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Fortune favours the prepared mind : Great (Accidental) Inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great post from Gizmodo about inventions that were not necessarily the result of years and years of thinking, but of accidental discovery.\u00a0 The first paragraph is a literally a teaser to get you into the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon after his WWI stint in the Navy, was known as an electronics genius. In 1945, Spencer was fiddling with a microwave-emitting magnetron\u2014used in the guts of radar arrays\u2014when he felt a strange sensation in his pants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5620910\/whoops-the-10-greatest-accidental-inventions-of-all-time\">Whoops! The 10 Greatest (Accidental) Inventions of All Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great post from Gizmodo about inventions that were not necessarily the result of years and years of thinking, but of accidental discovery.\u00a0 The first paragraph is a literally a teaser to get you into the story: Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon after his WWI stint in the Navy, was known as an electronics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture","category-innovation-processes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}