{"id":43,"date":"2007-07-06T23:23:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T06:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquewhite-badger-125150.hostingersite.com\/kites\/2007\/07\/06\/catherines-wheel\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T23:23:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T06:23:34","slug":"catherines-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/2007\/07\/06\/catherines-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine’s Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Catherine's<\/a> Well, I finished my first attempt at a “Catherine’s Wheel” last night – a piece of line laundry that is supposed to spin in the wind. It was rather easy to make except that the instructions were about as clear as mud. As a result, I don’t know if it’s going to spin or not – if it’s not constructed properly, it will inflate but not spin. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any wind either last night or today so I ended up taking my boy down to the ocean where, of course, there also wasn’t any wind (not even the slightest breeze). So. . .what does one do? Have your boy run with it, of course! The picture at the left shows just that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As is evident, my Catherine’s Wheel did inflate but I still haven’t been able to tell if it will spin. My boy’s\"Catherine's<\/a> test run did prove that it will at least appear as a circle. Sadly a couple of the bridles came loose during it’s maiden voyage. I used Dacron line and tied it to the wheel using sheet bends (as the instructions directed). Unfortunately, the Dacron is too slippery and a couple of the knots came undone. I’m going to super-glue each knot tonight as tying them on was a bit of a pain.<\/p>\n

\"Catherine's<\/a> Even with the lack of wind and the problems with the bridles, I think that the Catherine’s Wheel turned okay. I’m just hoping that it will spin. Only time will tell that – I’m going to try again tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I finished my first attempt at a “Catherine’s Wheel” last night – a piece of line laundry that is supposed to spin in the wind. It was rather easy to make except that the instructions were about as clear as mud. As a result, I don’t know if it’s going to spin or not … Continue reading Catherine’s Wheel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,28],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kites","tag-boy","tag-catherines-wheel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}