{"id":958,"date":"2015-02-07T23:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2015-02-07T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:43:09","slug":"national-paper-airplane-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2015\/national-paper-airplane-contest","title":{"rendered":"National Paper Airplane Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you remember, I backed the <a title=\"PowerUp 3.0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poweruptoys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PowerUp 3.0<\/a> project on Kickstarter and got myself a fancy motor for paper airplaine.\u00c2\u00a0 Shai, who ran the project, has sent out an e-mail that John Collins, the world record holder for distance flying, has launched a <a title=\"National Paper Airplane Contest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/paperairplane\/the-national-paper-airplane-contest\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter project for a National Paper Airplane Contest<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I dare you to look me in the eyes and tell me there isn&#8217;t a little kid inside you that would totally participate at the local preliminaries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down on the Kickstarter page to see Conan O&#8217;Brien interview Mr. Collins, who demonstrates a few planes on the show.\u00c2\u00a0 They also show the world record throw.<\/p>\n<p>As for my paper airplane propeller, I still don&#8217;t have a phone that can run the app, so I handed it to our apprentice for Christmas break.\u00c2\u00a0 He had some fun with it, though he recommends using it outside.\u00c2\u00a0 Relevant quote: &#8220;Minus two ornaments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you remember, I backed the PowerUp 3.0 project on Kickstarter and got myself a fancy motor for paper airplaine.\u00c2\u00a0 Shai, who ran the project, has sent out an e-mail that John Collins, the world record holder for distance flying, has launched a Kickstarter project for a National Paper Airplane Contest.\u00c2\u00a0 I dare you to look me in the eyes and tell me there isn&#8217;t a little kid inside you that would totally participate at the local preliminaries&#8230; Scroll down on the Kickstarter page to see Conan O&#8217;Brien interview Mr. Collins, who demonstrates a few planes on the show.\u00c2\u00a0 They also show the world record throw. As for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}