{"id":8,"date":"2017-09-03T21:42:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:23:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"About the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The \u201cBeast\u201d Past, Present, &amp; Future.<br \/>\nwhere it started, what&#8217;s been done, &amp; happening now, and where we hope to go.<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=190\">The Past<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=2094\">The history of the beast.<\/a><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The van&#8217;s origins and our starting point.<br \/>\n<\/span> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=339\">What\u2019s been done.<\/a><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The list of modifications &amp; upgrades by us.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=149\">The present<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=7497\">Work in progress<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">The jobs we are working on or are planning to do.<br \/>\n<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=919\">Maintenance repairs &amp; remedial work.<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of the jobs we had to do.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=16877\">Basic specifications<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=196\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Future<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=349\">Long-term plans for the Beast.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"> A few ideas for additions to the van, <em>(if the current wish list gets too small).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=8637\">The possible future.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Artist impressions of what we are currently planning for the van.<br \/>\n<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=358\">Pipe Dreams.<br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Getting further from reality all the time.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6760 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avatar-d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avatar-d.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avatar-d-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avatar-d-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avatar-d-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avatar-d-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cBeast\u201d Past, Present, &amp; Future. where it started, what&#8217;s been done, &amp; happening now, and where we hope to go. The Past. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The history of the beast. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The van&#8217;s origins and our starting point. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; What\u2019s been done. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Beast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21315,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/21315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}