{"id":1685,"date":"2017-11-07T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1685-mushrooms-and-beer-taps.html"},"modified":"2017-11-07T01:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:12:28","slug":"mushrooms-and-beer-taps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1685-mushrooms-and-beer-taps.html","title":{"rendered":"Mushrooms and Beer Taps"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2324 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"628\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1517-_MG_0540.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf I were either an industrial designer or a biologist specializing in mycology I think I&#8217;d be drawn to beer taps.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOnce they were just utilitarian mechanical pumps drawing on the bartender&#8217;s strength to &#8216;pull&#8217; ale from kegs. Now however these bright iconic taps sporting their manufacturer&#8217;s logos seem to sprout from bars like mushrooms.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nJust like the the fungal mycelium under the ground, under bars lies a complex network of nylon tubes leading off to hidden kegs, cylinders of carbon-dioxide gas and refrigeration systems.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMushrooms and beer taps; I wonder who else has noticed the uncanny similarity. Now if only one or two would pop up on our back lawn!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Mushrooms and Beertaps&#8217;, 1\/100s f\/3.2 ISO320 200mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were either an industrial designer or a biologist specializing in mycology I think I&#8217;d be drawn to beer taps. Once they were just utilitarian mechanical pumps drawing on the bartender&#8217;s strength to &#8216;pull&#8217; ale from kegs. Now however these bright iconic taps sporting their manufacturer&#8217;s logos seem to sprout from bars like mushrooms. &#8230; <a title=\"Mushrooms and Beer Taps\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1685-mushrooms-and-beer-taps.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mushrooms and Beer Taps\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}