{"id":5841,"date":"2014-01-14T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2016-02-28T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T23:04:42","slug":"too-wonderful-australian-government-engineers-inspire-7-year-old-girls-quest-for-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/too-wonderful-australian-government-engineers-inspire-7-year-old-girls-quest-for-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Wonderful &#8211; Australian Government Engineers Inspire 7 year old Girl&#8217;s Quest for Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I LOVE this story !<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5845\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3d_toothless.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5845\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5845\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3d_toothless-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Toothless, Girl Dragon\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3d_toothless-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3d_toothless-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3d_toothless.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toothless, Girl Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>It combines touching-kindness and caring about children, inspiring them with science and engineering !!! &#8211; and even includes Dragons. What more could I ask for?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csironewsblog.com\/2014\/01\/10\/here-be-3d-printed-dragons\/\">A curious young woman (7 years old) writes to Australia&#8217;s Government Research Center called CSIRO and asks if they can make a Dragon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They not only respond, they apologize and before long &#8230; well you&#8217;ll have to read the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5842\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sophieletter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5842\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5842\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sophieletter.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie' Dragon Request Letter\" width=\"590\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sophieletter.jpg 590w, https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sophieletter-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sophieletter-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophie&#8217; Dragon Request Letter<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csironewsblog.com\/2014\/01\/06\/accelerating-our-dragon-rd-program\/\">CSIRO: Accelerating our dragon R&amp;D program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csironewsblog.com\/2014\/01\/10\/here-be-3d-printed-dragons\/\">CSIRO: Here be 3D printed dragons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/technology\/sci-tech\/queensland-girls-christmas-inquiry-fires-new-passion-at-csiro-for-dragon-studies-20140108-30hv4.html\">Queensland girl&#8217;s Christmas inquiry fires new passion at CSIRO for dragon studies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I LOVE this story ! It combines touching-kindness and caring about children, inspiring them with science and engineering !!! &#8211; and even includes Dragons. What more could I ask for?\u00a0 A curious young woman (7 years old) writes to Australia&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/too-wonderful-australian-government-engineers-inspire-7-year-old-girls-quest-for-dragons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}