{"id":821,"date":"2012-08-17T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/17\/whoa-man-with-too-much-spare-time-makes-a-real-life-wall-e\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:20:00","slug":"whoa-man-with-too-much-spare-time-makes-a-real-life-wall-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/17\/whoa-man-with-too-much-spare-time-makes-a-real-life-wall-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoa! Man with too much spare time makes a real-life Wall-E"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>This is too great not to share: hobbyist and madman Mike Senna has spent the past three years constructing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/lyapalater\/a-man-built-a-real-life-wall-e-and-its-adorable\">a life-sized, remote-controlled Wall-E robot<\/a> from scratch. Now it&#8217;s making its rounds through Disney locations, charity events, and hobbyist fairs across the country. You can follow Senna&#8217;s adventures <a href=\"http:\/\/sennaswalle.blogspot.com\/\">on his blog<\/a>, where he posts pictures of Wall-E meeting with dignitaries like <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9cKsU0jcPXE\/T_YULjZoaqI\/AAAAAAAACGs\/bu6t43N1GNY\/s1600\/283716_10150935220482243_764997937_n.jpg\">Iron Man<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-gxFsa3OrIgU\/T7q2U8_61OI\/AAAAAAAACCI\/1XT6BsinbjA\/s1600\/walle+meets+dalek.jpg\">Dalek<\/a> from <i>Doctor Who<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe it&#8217;s excessively nerdy, but it&#8217;s excessively nerdy in an adorable, heart-warming way.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re getting the kick rewatch <i>Wall-E<\/i> now, the film is available in our collections (HU DVD 4950).\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is too great not to share: hobbyist and madman Mike Senna has spent the past three years constructing a life-sized, remote-controlled Wall-E robot from scratch. Now it&#8217;s making its rounds through Disney locations, charity events, and hobbyist fairs across the country. You can follow Senna&#8217;s adventures on his blog, where he posts pictures of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}