{"id":10172,"date":"2019-09-21T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T00:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2019-09-29T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T00:28:58","slug":"leos-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/21\/leos-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo&#8217;s Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/leonardo-da-vincis-mechanical-lion-goes-display-paris-220821315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from AFP via Yahoo! News (opens in a new tab)\">from AFP via Yahoo! News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s mechanical lion goes on display in Paris<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/JRabxR5ad.x12fzrEYNZmQ--~B\/aD01MTI7dz03Njg7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/afp.com\/1b010ae6115c50974497320d877152d196023847.jpg\" alt=\"The original automaton, long since lost, was designed by da Vinci on a commission from Pope Leo X to amuse French king Francois I\"\/><figcaption>The original automaton, long since lost, was designed by da Vinci on a commission from Pope Leo X to amuse French king Francois I (AFP Photo\/Thomas SAMSON)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paris (AFP) &#8211; Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s famous mechanical lion on Wednesday went on display in Paris for a month, in a tribute to the Renaissance master 500 years after his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lion, which is two metres (six feet, seven inches) high and three metres long and made of wood with a metal mechanism, is a reconstruction based on a rudimentary sketch left by da Vinci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original automaton, long since lost, was designed by da Vinci on a commission from Pope Leo X to amuse French king Francois I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/leonardo-da-vincis-mechanical-lion-goes-display-paris-220821315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Yahoo! News (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Yahoo! News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AFP via Yahoo! News Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s mechanical lion goes on display in Paris Paris (AFP) &#8211; Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s famous mechanical lion on Wednesday went on display in Paris for a month, in a tribute to the Renaissance master 500 years after his death. The lion, which is two metres (six feet, seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}