{"id":25765,"date":"2012-10-31T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2012\/10\/31\/first-look-pumpkin-launch-2012\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T19:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T19:05:44","slug":"first-look-pumpkin-launch-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2012\/10\/31\/first-look-pumpkin-launch-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Pumpkin Launch 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years now, PADT has had a tradition of shooting off pumpkin mortars on Halloween.\u00a0 Originally we took dry ice, sealed it with some water in a 2 Liter bottle, put it in a tube with a pumpkin on top and \u201cbang-whooosh\u201d a pumpkin goes a flying.<\/p>\n<p>Being engineers, we have to improve on the process\u2026 this year we used foam wadding, put cameras inside foam \u201cpumpkins\u201d and tried launching an ice pumpkin.\u00a0 Here is the first attempt:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:02adffad-ac8b-4a0c-a020-47cade459750\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6YPcIzDnXPc?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" \/><embed width=\"448\" height=\"252\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6YPcIzDnXPc?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 448px; clear: both; font-size: .8em;\">Pumpkin Launch<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Look for more videos tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years now, PADT has had a tradition of shooting off pumpkin mortars on Halloween.\u00a0 Originally we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[591,37],"post-podcast":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25765"},{"taxonomy":"post-podcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-podcast?post=25765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}