{"id":26,"date":"2004-07-09T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T10:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=26"},"modified":"2004-07-09T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T10:56:01","slug":"the-most-addictive-toy-ever-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/the-most-addictive-toy-ever-created\/","title":{"rendered":"The most addictive toy ever created&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official Powerball website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerballs.com\">www.powerballs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our office scoreboard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehippy.net\/owapowerball.htm\">OWA Powerball Scores<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Initially I thought the Powerball gyroscope was the silliest toy I&#8217;d seen a grown man purchase in a long time. I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s THE most addictive thing our office has seen! <\/p>\n<p>Start it with the string (most of us can start it with a thumb flick now) and then rotate the ball-gyro at the correct speed and &#8220;circle size&#8221; with the emphasis on using your wrist, rather than your arm. The idea is to get it going as fast as possible. An LED counter on the side tells you the fastest RPM for a &#8220;go&#8221; and can also give a figure for the power\/endurance over a 30 second period of frenzied spinning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Powerball website: www.powerballs.com Our office scoreboard: OWA Powerball Scores Initially I thought the Powerball gyroscope was the silliest toy I&#8217;d seen a grown man purchase in a long time. I was wrong. It&#8217;s THE most addictive thing our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/the-most-addictive-toy-ever-created\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}