{"id":1039,"date":"2011-04-25T14:14:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2012-01-21T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T03:16:59","slug":"blast-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Blast Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5181\/5654671056_c09df71bd1.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0015\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It has been raining. A lot. And so, with a little imagination, a lot of silver duct tape, and a string of Christmas lights smuggled out of the newly cleaned and organized basement (thank you Andrew), we created The Rocket Ship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5186\/5654670338_d0b924b5e1.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0013\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is large enough for both pilot and co-pilot and started as a peaceful endeavor; a simple trip to the moon for anti-gravity training. But, with the addition of two &#8220;shoot-guns&#8221; (tubes meant for windows that just so happen to be <em>just <\/em>the right size to punch Styrofoam balls out of), things got hairy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5149\/5654096169_5e15380924.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0010\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And Styrofoam-y. Turns out the missiles created just enough friction to slough off &#8220;snow&#8221; every time one was shot through its gun. Enough snow to make it feel like Christmas all over again. On the rug. Except, I&#8217;m kind of tired of snow and all that, so we stopped that game&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5188\/5654097783_0956794052.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0023\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">and returned to our original peaceful mission. Which was much more subdued to begin with. And around here, subdued is a good thing every now and then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5028\/5654098811_fceeb2b7b9.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0027\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5266\/5654099485_6bb5f08fbc.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0029\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been raining. A lot. And so, with a little imagination, a lot of silver duct tape, and a string of Christmas lights smuggled out of the newly cleaned and organized basement (thank you Andrew), we created The Rocket Ship. It is large enough for both pilot and co-pilot and started as a peaceful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1039\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blast Off&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-ingenius-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}