{"id":8516,"date":"2011-12-24T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2011-12-23T19:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T03:14:31","slug":"catapult-kit-assembled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/12\/24\/catapult-kit-assembled\/","title":{"rendered":"Catapult kit, assembled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-8516\">\n<p>My boss got me a (very cool) wooden catapult kit &#8211; as he said before I opened it, &#8220;Something he wished he had.&#8221; I love it! I wasn&#8217;t feeling well, getting over a bout of laryngitis, and spent about an hour assembling the kit. It&#8217;s over 6 inches long and can fire a clay ball about 10 feet (and that&#8217;s not fully sprung either).<\/p>\n<p>It works! And I think it&#8217;s beautiful. I have it in my office, here are a couple pictures I took with my phone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.alephnaught.com\\\/Blog\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/24\\\/catapult-kit-assembled\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:37193943}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 189px;\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"189\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 189px;\" data-original-width=\"250\" data-original-height=\"189\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult1.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"246\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"185\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\" colorbox-8516\" data-attachment-id=\"8517\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 3GS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1324569724&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A view of the catapult\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult1.jpg?fit=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult1.jpg?fit=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult1.jpg?w=246&#038;h=185&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult1.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" width=\"246\" height=\"185\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"246\" data-original-height=\"185\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"A view of the catapult\" alt=\"A view of the catapult\" style=\"width: 246px; height: 185px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> A view of the catapult <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 189px;\" data-original-width=\"250\" data-original-height=\"189\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult2.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"246\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"185\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\" colorbox-8516\" data-attachment-id=\"8518\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 3GS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1324569736&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A view of the catapult\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult2.jpg?fit=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult2.jpg?fit=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult2.jpg?w=246&#038;h=185&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult2.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Catapult2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" width=\"246\" height=\"185\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"246\" data-original-height=\"185\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"A view of the catapult\" alt=\"A view of the catapult\" style=\"width: 246px; 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I wasn&#8217;t feeling well, getting over a bout of laryngitis, and spent about an hour assembling the kit. It&#8217;s over 6 inches long and can fire a clay ball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[514],"tags":[1133,210],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","tag-catapult","tag-toy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-2dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}