{"id":177,"date":"2010-05-08T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2010-07-05T06:06:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T06:06:47","slug":"another-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/177-another-new-toy.html","title":{"rendered":"Another new toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have for years been desiring a digital USB microscope. Today I happened to join my sister, her husband and their children in a visit to Norsk Teknisk Museum<\/a>. In the museum shop I found this <\/a>little thingie. I admit to being very tempted, and when temptation is allowed to run amok for an hour or so, it might also happen to result in a new purchase. At least that was what happened to me today. The first two pictures I tried to create are not that amazing, but let us see what else I might publish in the future.<\/p>\n

\"Digital<\/a>

Digital microscope - a hair<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Digital<\/a>

Digital microscope - a hair and its root<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have for years been desiring a digital USB microscope. Today I happened to join my sister, her husband and their children in a visit to Norsk Teknisk Museum. In the museum shop I found this little thingie. I admit to being very tempted, and when temptation is allowed to run amok for an hour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[254,511,18],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-photography","tag-microscope","tag-photography","tag-picture","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xqPf-2R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1610,"url":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/1610-1200-year-old-ships.html","url_meta":{"origin":177,"position":0},"title":"1200 year old ships","author":"leirdal","date":"2013-08-28","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a museum in Oslo called the Viking ship museum. 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