{"id":696,"date":"2012-08-07T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2012-08-07T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:47:23","slug":"google-doodle-olympicmars-curosity-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/google-doodle-olympicmars-curosity-mashup.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Doodle Olympic\/Mars Curosity Mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a big fan of Google for a many years and one of the neat things I think they do is the home page &#8220;Google doodle&#8221;. These are the graphics that sometimes replace the plain blue-red-yellow Google logo to celebrate some event.<\/p>\n<p>For the past week they have been running different Olympic themed pictures to celebrate the London games. Yesterday on August 6th they did a javelin themed one and this is what it looked like when I first visited it in the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/images\/2012\/javelin-2012-hp-1.jpg\" alt=\"Google Doodle for August 2nd - Javelin\" width=\"530\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later in the day when I went back to Google they still had the javelin themed doodle up but I noticed it had changed slightly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/images\/2012\/javelin-2012-hp.jpg\" alt=\"Google Doodle for August 2nd - Javelin\" width=\"530\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the difference?<\/p>\n<p>The blimp above the &#8220;G&#8221; has been replaced with the Mars Curiosity landing. August 6th was also the be day the Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars. What a cool little tribute to science just hidden right there.<\/p>\n<p>You can look through the catalog of previous Google Doodles at\u00a0<a title=\"Google Doodles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it just me or does this javelin thrower resemble a grown up Pinocchio? Just saying, with a nose like that&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a big fan of Google for a many years and one of the neat things I think they do is the home page &#8220;Google doodle&#8221;. These are the graphics that sometimes replace the plain blue-red-yellow Google logo to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/google-doodle-olympicmars-curosity-mashup.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[27],"tags":[65,63,64,19],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-doodle","tag-google","tag-olympics","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}