{"id":199672,"date":"2007-07-06T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/06\/adventures-in-amateur-rocketry\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T10:17:00","slug":"adventures-in-amateur-rocketry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/06\/adventures-in-amateur-rocketry\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Amateur Rocketry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, we went to the local school playground with Charlie&#8217;s brand spanking new Estes<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> rocket.<\/p>\n<p>We had tried to launch a few days earlier, and had gotten only fizzles, because the batteries were dubious.<\/p>\n<p>This time it launched, and the parachute deployed.  Charlie was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> happy about this.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I got the winds aloft wrong, and it drifted across the playground, over the school, and got hung up in a tree about 80 feet in the air.<\/p>\n<p>It was my fault, I chose the location, so I&#8217;ll be replacing the rocket for Charlie (he spent his hard earned allowance on the first one), and Charlie was a very good sport about all of this.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I think we go to Hannah Moore Mark, which has a lot more space, and I check the winds better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, we went to the local school playground with Charlie&#8217;s brand spanking new Estes\u00ae rocket. We had tried to launch a few days earlier, and had gotten only fizzles, because the batteries were dubious. This time it launched, and the parachute deployed. Charlie was very happy about this. Unfortunately, I got the winds aloft &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}