{"id":681,"date":"2008-06-19T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2008-06-21T00:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T07:08:41","slug":"a126-astrojax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"#a126 :: Astrojax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/062008.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/062008-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-682\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"3\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/062008-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/062008-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/062008.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>When you play with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=4&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.astrojax.com%2F&#038;ei=66VcSO2kJom6sAPx-I2RDA&#038;usg=AFQjCNFxA8C-sW6Ur_Y2v5ePhvgXzhisrA&#038;sig2=yEh4vHJ8MZWGjd_XDxdR9g\">Astrojax<\/a> correctly, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-discount.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">prescription<\/a>  its three torusoid balls, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-order.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">here<\/a>  each mounted with a different colored LED, whip around in concentric, flickering orbits.<\/p>\n<p>The red and green ones anchor either end of a 3-foot-long nylon string, and the yellow ball slides up and down the string, exchanging weight, mass and inertia with the ball riding at the free end.<\/p>\n<p>From five feet away, the juggling appears like magic &#8211; a dance of conjurer&#8217;s fireflies.<\/p>\n<p>If you play with Astrojax incorrectly, their cacophonous, clattering failure to spin marks you as an utter dork.<\/p>\n<p>From five feet away, you look like nothing more than an utter dork jerking balls at the end of a string.<\/p>\n<p>Astrojax&#8217;s utter perfection as an instrument of pointless skill that fits in your pocket and looks showy from a distance make them some of my most dearly beloved heavy little objects. Brilliant fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astrojax\">Wikipedia<\/a> says they were invented in 1987 by physicist Larry Shaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you play with Astrojax correctly, prescription its three torusoid balls, here each mounted with a different colored LED, whip around in concentric, flickering orbits. The red and green ones anchor either end of a 3-foot-long nylon string, and the yellow ball slides up and down the string, exchanging weight, mass and inertia with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}