{"id":10151,"date":"2015-09-12T19:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T23:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2015-09-12T19:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T23:01:29","slug":"012366-rocket-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/12\/012366-rocket-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"012\/366: Rocket Dude!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SteelyKid spent a good chunk of the afternoon playing at a friend&#8217;s house, so most of the photographic activity of the day involved The Pip energetically playing with various toys. This included a good while spent in the back yard with a Stomp Rocket:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10152\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/09\/sm_rocket_dude.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/09\/sm_rocket_dude.jpg\" alt=\"The Pip attempts to send a Stomp Rocket into orbit.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sm_rocket_dude.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sm_rocket_dude-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pip attempts to send a Stomp Rocket into orbit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In this shot, he&#8217;s leaped with great force onto the rubber bulb of the launcher, sending the rocket up over his head. Kate is playing the Mission Control role.<\/p>\n<p>This is cropped from a wider shot, part of a series of rapid-shutter images of the launch, zoomed out to get the whole flight. I also have video of these, which might be interesting to look at with Tracker because the rocket is very much <em>not<\/em> in free fall&#8211; the air resistance forces are very significant. That&#8217;s a project for another day.<\/p>\n<p>The culmination of this game was a &#8220;Great Challenge,&#8221; that involved me launching the rocket, which The Pip then attempted to whack with a stick before it hit the ground. Why? Because he&#8217;s a 3.8-year-old boy. Everything gets hit with a stick sooner or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteelyKid spent a good chunk of the afternoon playing at a friend&#8217;s house, so most of the photographic activity of the day involved The Pip energetically playing with various toys. This included a good while spent in the back yard with a Stomp Rocket: In this shot, he&#8217;s leaped with great force onto the rubber&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/12\/012366-rocket-dude\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">012\/366: Rocket Dude!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,2,50,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-personal","category-pictures","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}