{"id":12573,"date":"2015-05-27T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2015-05-27T08:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T12:03:45","slug":"human-cannonballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/human-cannonballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Cannonballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052715_1201_HumanCannon1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robbie Gonzalez took us inside the life of a human cannonball:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Human cannonballing is largely a family business. Performers are related by blood or marriage.<\/li>\n<li>The business is secretive. Only industry veterans know, for example, how the cannons are made.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a dangerous sport. One old estimate suggests that out of 50 performers, 30 had died.<\/li>\n<li>When the person is launched they travel at a speed of 66 miles per hour.<\/li>\n<li>They are shot from a cannon that is heated precisely to between 65 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit, in order to ensure that the pressurized gas powering the cannon behaves as expected.<\/li>\n<li>The cannonball lands on an airbag that is painted with a target and multiple stars that act as reference points and tell the performer how to control their speed mid-air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the business and see some incredible videos and .gifs, including one that shows what it&#8217;s like from the perspective of the human cannonball <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/a-glimpse-inside-the-secretive-world-of-human-cannonbal-1692521305\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/a-glimpse-inside-the-secretive-world-of-human-cannonbal-1692521305\">io9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie Gonzalez took us inside the life of a human cannonball: Human cannonballing is largely a family business. Performers are related by blood or marriage. The business is secretive. Only industry veterans know, for example, how the cannons are made. It&#8217;s a dangerous sport. One old estimate suggests that out of 50 performers, 30 had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052715_1201_HumanCannon1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12576,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions\/12576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}