{"id":7581,"date":"2014-11-12T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2014-11-12T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:19:00","slug":"leftover-pumpkins-durango-herald-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/2014\/11\/12\/leftover-pumpkins-durango-herald-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftover pumpkins? (Durango Herald article)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Leftover pumpkins?<\/h1>\n<h2>Animas High physics students demonstrate trebuchets<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"articleText\"><span class=\"dropcap\">M<\/span>iddle Age talk or dress was not in sight, but plenty of Middle Age technology was evident Thursday when Animas High School advanced physics students tested the trebuchets they built.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"articleText\">It was the culmination of a month of studying kinematics, a branch of mechanics, and the construction of five projectile-launching apparatus under the guidance of teacher Dave Heerschap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"articleText\">The day of reckoning saw them launch pumpkins from a hillside overlooking the Twin Buttes garden. A 69-meter toss carried the day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"articleText\">Classmates from all grade levels watched the show uphill from the launch zone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/article\/20141106\/NEWS01\/141109674\/0\/SEARCH\/Leftover-pumpkins?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftover pumpkins? Animas High physics students demonstrate trebuchets Middle Age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ahs-in-the-news","category-news","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animashighschool.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}