{"id":10686,"date":"2018-11-11T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=10686"},"modified":"2018-11-17T22:40:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T21:40:40","slug":"daily_1419_-_modern_marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/11\/11\/daily_1419_-_modern_marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1419 &#8211; modern marbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1419_marbles.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nSince the family birthday party, Adrian has been playing almost every day with the Gravitrax marble run. Even Ingrid has been joining him at times.<\/p>\n<p>The Gravitrax is much easier to re-configure than older, more traditional marble runs, because the pieces are only loosely connected, so it&#8217;s very open for experimentation and &#8220;what if I move this here&#8221;. And that experimentation is is quite necessary. Instead of traditional glass marbles, this one uses small metal balls, and instead of straight paths where the marble has no choice but to end up in the right place, this one has curved pieces and magnetic cannons and track switches &#8211; which make for exciting runs, but also a lot of derailments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the family birthday party, Adrian has been playing almost every day with the Gravitrax marble run. Even Ingrid has been joining him at times. The Gravitrax is much easier to re-configure than older, more traditional marble runs, because the pieces are only loosely connected, so it&#8217;s very open for experimentation and &#8220;what if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10687,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions\/10687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}