{"id":248,"date":"2005-08-01T12:13:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/fun-with-catapults\/"},"modified":"2005-08-01T12:13:15","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T16:13:15","slug":"fun-with-catapults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/fun-with-catapults\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with catapults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/trebuchet.jpg\" title=\"Trebuchet Action\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_trebuchet.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Trebuchet Action\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not as much as bacon or boobs, but I love trebuchets. Not sure why. Maybe because it&#8217;s feat of engineering as a large-scale application of mechanical advantage. Maybe it&#8217;s because it&#8217;ll fuck you up from afar. It was always the first thing made whenever I got a new building toy set whether it was Legos, Erector, whatever. Many Weebles were lost to an overly-powerful Tinker-Toy siege engine.<\/p>\n<p>Getting on with it&#8230;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalspec.com\/trebuchet\/\">Flash game<\/a> that lets you tweak a bunch of variables on your trebuchet as you&#8217;re tested for distance, accuracy, and power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as much as bacon or boobs, but I love trebuchets. Not sure why. Maybe because it&#8217;s feat of engineering as a large-scale application of mechanical advantage. Maybe it&#8217;s because it&#8217;ll fuck you up from afar. It was always the first thing made whenever I got a new building toy set whether it was Legos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-video","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}