{"id":7415,"date":"2013-05-15T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2661167"},"modified":"2013-05-15T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:01:00","slug":"are-legos-the-building-blocks-of-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/are-legos-the-building-blocks-of-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Legos the Building Blocks of the Cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legos have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest, fondest memories involve Legos &#8211; starting from a small car made from a couple of simple bricks to very complex spaceships and wild creatures. I\u2019m always amazed at how nicely and cleanly they snap together to create something solid, functional, and \u2013 in the case of the Millennium Falcon \u2013 amazing. Let\u2019s be honest, I\u2019m not the only one occasionally sneaking down Target\u2019s Lego aisle to discover what new theme they\u2019ve cooked up from the same core concept: clicking bricks together.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s magical what happens to the brain when snapping those colorful, simple blocks into place. Visions of larger, cooler creations are conjured and we find ourselves scrambling for additional blocks to connect to create something that has a whole new purpose or function.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2661167\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legos have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest, fondest memories involve Legos &#8211; starting from a small car made from a couple of simple bricks to very complex spaceships and wild creatures. I\u2019m always amazed at h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}