{"id":7835,"date":"2010-04-27T03:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T03:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/27\/the-cucumber-slice-on-the-whee\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T03:01:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T03:01:01","slug":"the-cucumber-slice-on-the-whee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/the-cucumber-slice-on-the-whee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cucumber Slice on the Wheel of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knife throwing is for real.  This came up on a different thread.  Although it is possible to make a fake stage act that involves what looks like knife throwing, that is actually fairly rare.  It is easier to learn to throw the knife than to make a contraption that would actually fool today&#8217;s skeptical audiences.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a YouTube video that happens to be of a performance that Stephanie Zvan, Julia and I saw last September (I remember two or three things in this video that identify it as that specific show, that specific day).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KtD95xP5AHI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>OK, OK, so maybe that looks easy. Try this:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mDl4syk9nfo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knife throwing is for real. This came up on a different thread. Although it is possible to make a fake stage act that involves what looks like knife throwing, that is actually fairly rare. It is easier to learn to throw the knife than to make a contraption that would actually fool today&#8217;s skeptical audiences. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/the-cucumber-slice-on-the-whee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cucumber Slice on the Wheel of Death<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-22n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835"}],"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=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}