{"id":1706,"date":"2012-05-14T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2012-05-14T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T14:53:59","slug":"the-lego-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/05\/14\/the-lego-inferno\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lego Inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With final papers done and turned in, exams finished, and the semester turning over into the start of the summer break, CC102 students might be feeling a bit like they&#8217;ve emerged from the final level of the Inferno &#8212; &#8220;Procrastinators&#8221;?, skipping Purgatory altogether to end up directly in the Paradiso-like environs of summer break. So here&#8217;s a bit of Dantean lightness to speed the transition along. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5909719\/the-nine-circles-of-hell-as-depicted-in-lego\">io9.com<\/a>: &#8220;Sculptor Mihai Mihu has built this fantastic and creepy nine-part collection of LEGO dioramas based on Dante Alighieri&#8217;s Inferno. Witness the Divine Comedy depicted in tiny plastic bricks, from the River Styx to the frozen head of Satan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-532\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2012\/05\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"medium\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With final papers done and turned in, exams finished, and the semester turning over into the start of the summer break, CC102 students might be feeling a bit like they&#8217;ve emerged from the final level of the Inferno &#8212; &#8220;Procrastinators&#8221;?, skipping Purgatory altogether to end up directly in the Paradiso-like environs of summer break. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4572,3717,4794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}