{"id":355,"date":"2008-05-29T03:59:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T08:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/355"},"modified":"2008-05-29T03:59:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T08:59:23","slug":"toys-in-the-office-gettin-medieval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/355","title":{"rendered":"Toys in the Office:  Gettin&#039; Medieval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/05\/trebuchet.jpg' title='trebuchet.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/05\/trebuchet.jpg' alt='trebuchet.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bought this trebuchet as a kit several years ago, and put it together over the Memorial day weekend back then.  I had seen a NOVA special about some men who built two using in-period tools, and then knocked down a wall with them.  When I ran across the kits on the intertubes, I couldn&#8217;t get my wallet out fast enough.  It came with what looked to be ~50 caliber musket shot, which is not exactly conducive to indoor testing, so I substituted balled-up aluminum foil.  It&#8217;s a favorite of some visitors, including the safety inspector(!).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalspec.com\/trebuchet\/\">Trebuchet Challenge<\/a> for testing your mad siege engine skillz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought this trebuchet as a kit several years ago, and put it together over the Memorial day weekend back then. I had seen a NOVA special about some men who built two using in-period tools, and then knocked down a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,51,53,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-silly","category-tech","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}