{"id":2967,"date":"2012-11-07T15:10:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2014-04-27T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T21:04:27","slug":"sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/archives\/2967","title":{"rendered":"Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagination is a powerful thing, especially in the hands of children. <a title=\"Beyond Boredom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/archives\/494\" target=\"_blank\">As we have already seen<\/a>, when children are deprived of entertainment, their minds will bend reality to suit their needs. A wonderful example of this is the use\u00a0of sticks as medieval weaponry. Here&#8217;s a graph which identifies common interpretations of various stick lengths:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Weapon-Graph.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My name is Atma... I am pure energy.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Weapon-Graph.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But stick aren&#8217;t just instruments of brutality. They can also transform into magical devices, with the length of the stick determining the level of magical power contained within.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Magic-Graph.bmp\"><img title=\"What kind of magic spell to use?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Magic-Graph.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some would argue that scepters and canes may also possess magic, but the power of a scepter is merely in its representation of a high position, and canes are mostly used to assist those with a limp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagination is a powerful thing, especially in the hands of children. As we have already seen, when children are deprived of entertainment, their minds will bend reality to suit their needs. A wonderful example of this is the use\u00a0of sticks as medieval weaponry. Here&#8217;s a graph which identifies common interpretations of various stick lengths: But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[90,679,737,736,738,735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2992,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}