{"id":557942,"date":"2018-12-17T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ec5ee921dd33f8d910914a2187e1c74b"},"modified":"2018-12-17T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T17:10:01","slug":"a-fire-breathing-dragon-helps-fight-ember-attacks-on-thatched-roof-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=557942","title":{"rendered":"A fire-breathing dragon helps fight ember attacks on thatched-roof buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to the historic mountain villages in central Japan marvel at the elegance of the steep thatched-roof farmhouses found there. Known as &#8220;gassho-zukuri,&#8221; Japanese for &#8220;constructed like hands in prayer,&#8221; the architectural style emerged more than 250 years ago to ruggedly withstand the area&#8217;s heavy winter snowfalls. Recently, a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fire researcher and his Japanese colleague conducted a special fire test to learn how to protect these treasured icons, and other thatched-roof structures around the world, from a more insidious threat: fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to the historic mountain villages in central Japan marvel at the elegance of the steep thatched-roof farmhouses found there. Known as &#8220;gassho-zukuri,&#8221; Japanese for &#8220;constructed like hands in prayer,&#8221; the architectural style emerged more than 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557943,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557942\/revisions\/557943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}