{"id":375,"date":"2009-08-21T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2009-08-21T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T19:37:40","slug":"the-little-crossbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"The Little Crossbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-376\" title=\"crossbow-angle-overhead297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/crossbow-angle-overhead297.jpg\" alt=\"crossbow-angle-overhead297\" width=\"353\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/crossbow-angle-overhead297.jpg 353w, http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/crossbow-angle-overhead297-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here it&#8217;s spanned, loaded with a little wad of aluminum foil (no goldfish crackers at fencing class last night) and ready to shoot.<\/p>\n<p>Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossbows.net\/\">New World Arbalest<\/a> &#8211;email them if you want one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not up on the online catalog yet. \u00a0 Mine is 13.5 inches long; the prod when the bow&#8217;s not spanned is 8 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Ammunition&#8211;try things.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve used the goldfish crackers, the corner off a saltine cracker, M&amp;Ms, carrot and celery sticks (inch to inch and a half long work better than longer ones, and trimmed fairly narrow but still stiff), wadded up paper and aluminum foil.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, and the foam ammunition for a toy gun.\u00a0\u00a0 I expect it would also work with dry peas and beans (haven&#8217;t tried yet)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it&#8217;s spanned, loaded with a little wad of aluminum foil (no goldfish crackers at fencing class last night) and ready to shoot. Available from New World Arbalest &#8211;email them if you want one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not up on the online catalog yet. \u00a0 Mine is 13.5 inches long; the prod when the bow&#8217;s not spanned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}