{"id":434,"date":"2008-03-05T20:02:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T07:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2008-03-05T20:04:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T07:04:42","slug":"a21-chinese-shuttlecocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"#a21 :: Chinese shuttlecocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/030508.jpg\" title=\"030508.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/030508.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"030508.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" \/><\/a>A spray of feathers, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-order-online.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">capsule<\/a>  a flip of the toe, an arc in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Anchored, each, in a little sandwich of loose-fitting brass clappers and soled with nubbly rubber, these toys came to us as gifts from Beijing. Kick one, and it clicks, soars up through a parabola, and drops, rubber down.<\/p>\n<p>Practice, wear uniforms, and you could apparently become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shuttlecock-world.org\/\">big worldwide<\/a>.<!--more-->The rules <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shuttlecock-world.org\/info.php?id=438_0_2_0_M\">vaguely resemble volleyball&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XNOeqo6Wvlk\">9-minute shuttlecock match<\/a> heisted from a Jackie Chan flick, which makes it look almost too precise a sport for reality &#8211; plus, the real thing is beefier and built for abuse.<\/p>\n<p>These have a delicate weight, their clappers barely broader than a quarter. Flimsy and poorly joined, the feathers live atop a high shelf in my office, sifting the air for dust.<\/p>\n<p>I fear play would destroy them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spray of feathers, capsule a flip of the toe, an arc in the air. Anchored, each, in a little sandwich of loose-fitting brass clappers and soled with nubbly rubber, these toys came to us as gifts from Beijing. Kick one, and it clicks, soars up through a parabola, and drops, rubber down. Practice, wear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-objet","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}