{"id":3387,"date":"2013-08-07T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2020-07-29T18:56:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T01:56:37","slug":"howto-build-a-monorail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/howto-build-a-monorail\/","title":{"rendered":"HOWTO: Build a Monorail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At linux.conf.au 2012 I gave a lightning talk on our Burning man 2010 art installation the Nowhere2Nowhere monorail. I finally extracted the video of just my lightning talk and threw it up on youtube for easy viewing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RLm2Pyg4v2Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At linux.conf.au 2012 I gave a lightning talk on our Burning man 2010 art installation the Nowhere2Nowhere monorail. 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