{"id":351,"date":"2004-07-08T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2004-07-08T12:13:04","modified_gmt":"2004-07-08T12:13:04","slug":"afghanistans_edison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8217;s Edison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Institute for War and Peace Reporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwpr.net\/index.pl?archive\/arr\/arr_200407_124_3_eng.txt\">details on the exploits of Ghulam Sediq Wardak, a 62 year old semi-literate Afghan with 341 clever inventions to his credit<\/a>. His first was a radio powered by the low voltage produced by the human body. His most recent is a 1980 Volkswagen rigged to run on solar power. A handful of others are mentioned. Like many a Slashdotter, his parents were once very worried and he eschews patents. &#8216;The main purpose of my inventing is not to earn money,&#8217; he says. &#8216;I want to render a service to my countrymen and to all people in the world.'&#8221; From <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/science\/04\/07\/07\/2220234.shtml?tid=134\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Institute for War and Peace Reporting details on the exploits of Ghulam Sediq Wardak, a 62 year old semi-literate Afghan with 341 clever inventions to his credit. His first was a radio powered by the low voltage produced by the human body. His most recent is a 1980 Volkswagen rigged to run on solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}