{"id":10459,"date":"2011-12-08T13:49:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T13:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/12\/08\/mythbusters-cannon-ball-firing\/"},"modified":"2011-12-08T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T13:49:50","slug":"mythbusters-cannon-ball-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/mythbusters-cannon-ball-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythbusters Cannon Ball Firing Mishap Animated"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>TV show Mythbusters has apologized after an experiment it conducted to measure the speed of a cannonball went wrong, leaving a trail of destruction across a California suburb. Instead of hitting its intended target, the cannon misfired, sending a six-inch ball of lead careening through one house, damaging another before ending up lodged in a minivan. No one was injured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OMG. I so wish it was my house hit by the Mythbusters Cannon Ball!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway here&#8217;s one of those zany animations of the event:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TADnDjyOwaQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OMG!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV show Mythbusters has apologized after an experiment it conducted to measure the speed of a cannonball went wrong, leaving a trail of destruction across a California suburb. Instead of hitting its intended target, the cannon misfired, sending a six-inch ball of lead careening through one house, damaging another before ending up lodged in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/mythbusters-cannon-ball-firing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mythbusters Cannon Ball Firing Mishap Animated<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3928,321],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2IH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}