{"id":115,"date":"2008-01-25T11:19:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-11-10T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T03:57:20","slug":"monster-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Monster Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How’s this for awesome picture of the week? I did a double-take when I first saw this picture but this is a real machine alright. It’s the Bagger 288<\/a> excavator and you can see more pictures of it on this blog<\/a>. Particularly awesome are the photos of the machine chewing up a Caterpillar bulldozer, the poor little thing.<\/p>\n

I picked up on this because this machine was apparently an inspiration for the developers of the upcoming Borderlands<\/a><\/em> game by Gearbox Software. As you can see from this promotional picture<\/a>, there’s definitely a distinctive resemblance there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How’s this for awesome picture of the week? I did a double-take when I first saw this picture but this is a real machine alright. It’s the Bagger 288 excavator and you can see more pictures of it on this blog. Particularly awesome are the photos of the machine chewing up a Caterpillar bulldozer, the … Continue reading Monster Machine<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[78,98],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-funny","tag-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}