{"id":15853,"date":"2026-03-14T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15853"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:22:13","slug":"interesting-engineering-behind-guy-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15853","title":{"rendered":"Interesting engineering behind guy towers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guyed_mast\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guyed_mast\">Guyed towers<\/a> (I thought they were called &#8216;guide&#8217; towers for a long time)\u00a0are tall thin vertical\u00a0structures\u00a0that depends on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy-wire\">guy lines<\/a>\u00a0for stability. The physics of these towers are very interesting and related to trispastos cranes in ancient Greece\/Rome and a sailing ship&#8217;s shroud and stay lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3nDdLiXS5wk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyed towers (I thought they were called &#8216;guide&#8217; towers for a long time)\u00a0are tall thin vertical\u00a0structures\u00a0that depends on\u00a0guy lines\u00a0for stability. The physics of these towers are very interesting and related to trispastos cranes in ancient Greece\/Rome and a sailing ship&#8217;s shroud and stay lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-47H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15857,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853\/revisions\/15857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}