{"id":159,"date":"2008-05-01T00:22:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T06:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=159"},"modified":"2008-05-21T00:10:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T06:10:59","slug":"the-science-and-fun-of-boomerangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"The Science and Fun of Boomerangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For\u00a0a 3rd grade science project, Holly had the choice of doing a video demonstration or an in-class demonstration of anything at all &#8220;scientific&#8221;. I&#8217;m so glad she chose to do a video, because it is so much fun to watch, even <strong>four years later<\/strong>. Some of you may already have seen it on <a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/2004\/07\/04\/fireworks-in-ellis-county\/\">boomsmith.com<\/a>, but I just now uploaded it to YouTube and it is being well-received. Here&#8217;s the description:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is a &#8220;How Boomerangs Work&#8221; video from the perspective of a 3rd grader. The video discusses some boomerang flight science, shows construction, throwing, and catching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This video was done for Holly&#8217;s 3rd grade science class and was so well-received that it was shown to all the other classes as well.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the video:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DFiEhUifUr8\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DFiEhUifUr8\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For\u00a0a 3rd grade science project, Holly had the choice of doing a video demonstration or an in-class demonstration of anything at all &#8220;scientific&#8221;. I&#8217;m so glad she chose to do a video, because it is so much fun to watch, even four years later. Some of you may already have seen it on boomsmith.com, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boomerangs","category-bruce","category-holly","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}