{"id":5854,"date":"2010-08-14T23:35:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T06:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:23:32","slug":"the-biggest-world-on-earth-the-unisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-biggest-world-on-earth-the-unisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest World on Earth – the Unisphere!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can imagine that if today the 12-story spherical globe structure known as the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park still holds the distinction of being the Biggest World on Earth<\/em>, back in 1964 that certainly was a title of acclaim! And with the recent repairs<\/a> – after 15-20 years without operation – of the fountains surrounding the Unisphere, there’s the feeling of a new hope<\/a> in Queens! Check out the awesome videos below for some remarkable footage of the Unisphere during its birth, including Robert Moses addressing the city, some “high-speed computers” doing mathematics, wind-tunnel tests and awesome construction shots!<\/p>\n

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(these photos courtesy of LIFE<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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You can imagine that if today the 12-story spherical globe structure known as the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park still holds the distinction of being the Biggest World on Earth, back in 1964 that certainly was a title of acclaim! And with the recent repairs – after 15-20 years without operation – of the fountains […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[118,675],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-queens","tag-unisphere"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2aa3350cb352dd8f_landing.jpg?fit=467%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-1wq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15632,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/15632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}