{"id":1248,"date":"2009-02-06T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:30:36","slug":"a357-rokenbok-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"#a357 :: Rokenbok ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0205091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1249\" title=\"0205091\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0205091-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"0205091\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0205091-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0205091-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/0205091.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Children&#8217;s toys approximate reality.<\/p>\n<p>In the happy world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=rokenbok+balls&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">Rokenbok<\/a> this is not a huge, filthy boulder shot through with veins of iron and smeared with the engine oil it&#8217;s been sitting in in the junkyard where you unearthed it after the glacier dropped it 3.2 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just part of a load that you spend idle hours shifting happily from one end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rokenbok.com\/RO_Products\/BuildingSets\/BS_04729.asp\">Action Sorter &amp; Conveyor Set<\/a> to the other. Scoop up the boulders, dump them in the hopper, <a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #676c6c;\" href=\"http:\/\/viagrabuyonline.net\">capsule<\/a> watch the little conveyor belt shift and sort them, repeat.<\/p>\n<p>The toy hung around for a good three years after Santa brought it, until its recipient tired of it and moved on to videogaming, elaborate science fiction illustration and (shudder) HTML. I think we eBayed it, but this little rock escaped to remind us of who the boy once was: A sweaty, two-fisted quarry foreman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children&#8217;s toys approximate reality. In the happy world of Rokenbok this is not a huge, filthy boulder shot through with veins of iron and smeared with the engine oil it&#8217;s been sitting in in the junkyard where you unearthed it after the glacier dropped it 3.2 million years ago. It&#8217;s just part of a load [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37,6,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-ephemera","category-jetsam","category-part","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}