{"id":11565,"date":"2012-04-27T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11565"},"modified":"2012-04-27T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T08:00:39","slug":"are-forts-your-forte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11565","title":{"rendered":"Are Forts Your Forte?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/19\/garden\/lessons-in-the-art-of-pillow-fort-construction.html?_r=1\">And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, Again<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe also get to talk about tension and compression,\u201d he said, though he avoids technical terms. \u201cWe talk about pushing and pulling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His big innovation is using blankets to wrap two large cushions so that they create a large wall panel that can stand on its edge. In fact, he creates several such panels. Then he uses another blanket or sheet to attach adjoining panels, in effect connecting the walls of the fort.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, Again \u201cWe also get to talk about tension and compression,\u201d he said, though he avoids technical terms. \u201cWe talk about pushing and pulling.\u201d His big innovation is using blankets to wrap two large cushions &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11565\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}