{"id":55,"date":"2016-09-20T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/?p=55"},"modified":"2016-10-05T12:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T11:56:21","slug":"trythistuesday-balloon-kebab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2016\/09\/20\/trythistuesday-balloon-kebab\/","title":{"rendered":"#TryThisTuesday: Balloon Kebab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2016\/09\/balloonkebab.png\" alt=\"balloonkebab\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2016\/09\/balloonkebab.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2016\/09\/balloonkebab-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your challenge this week is to pierce a skewer through a balloon without popping it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2016\/09\/14433164_679076145592501_7302409745039106189_n.jpg\" alt=\"14433164_679076145592501_7302409745039106189_n\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2016\/09\/14433164_679076145592501_7302409745039106189_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2016\/09\/14433164_679076145592501_7302409745039106189_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2016\/09\/14433164_679076145592501_7302409745039106189_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Share your attempts with us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter \u00a0&#8211; just use the hashtag #TryThisTuesday<\/p>\n<h3>How we did it:<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.giphy.com\/sKKhyGXu0iNQQ.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nPierce the balloon at the bottom near the knot, then slowly pass the skewer through and piece it through the darkest part at the far end. These points are where the rubber is under the least stress so is less likely to tear and pop under impact.<\/p>\n<p>Did you manage it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your challenge this week is to pierce a skewer through a balloon without popping it. Share your attempts with us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter \u00a0&#8211; just use the hashtag #TryThisTuesday How we did it: Pierce the balloon at the bottom near the knot, then slowly pass the skewer through and piece it through the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2016\/09\/20\/trythistuesday-balloon-kebab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#TryThisTuesday: Balloon Kebab<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,26,22,25,27,24,21],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-try-this-tuesday","tag-balloon","tag-bang","tag-challenge","tag-pop","tag-science","tag-skewer","tag-trythistuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}