{"id":4372,"date":"2016-01-28T09:16:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2016-01-28T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:16:51","slug":"cool-book-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/2016\/01\/28\/cool-book-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"cool book sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone is looking for the book to give a kid after you give her Swallows and Amazons, I just stumbled across it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anti-Pirate-Potato-Cannon-Things-Mariners-ebook\/dp\/B003O86F36\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1454000640&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=potato+guns+pirates\">The Anti-Pirate Potato Cannon and 101 Other Things for Young Mariners to Build, Try, and Do on the Water<\/a>. Given that last time I encountered someone with a potato gun they were using starter fluid as the propellant and that pretty much any potato gun I&#8217;ve ever seen involves some kind of explosive propellant, I was startled (and impressed) to see it in a kids&#8217; book. Apparently it also includes instructions on not only harmless crafts (make an underwater viewing bucket) but useful skills (navigate by the stars, build a raft) and some other riskier stuff (waterski on bare feet, do an Eskimo roll). I cannot help but think that the crews of both the Swallow and the Amazon would approve &#8211; except that Susan would insist on supervising the younger ones with the potato gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone is looking for the book to give a kid after you give her Swallows and Amazons, I just stumbled across it: The Anti-Pirate Potato Cannon and 101 Other Things for Young Mariners to Build, Try, and Do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/2016\/01\/28\/cool-book-sighting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}