{"id":238,"date":"2013-08-27T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/08\/27\/beach-ball-jumping-and-other-terrible-depression-era-diversions\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T21:33:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:33:17","slug":"beach-ball-jumping-and-other-terrible-depression-era-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/08\/beach-ball-jumping-and-other-terrible-depression-era-diversions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Beach Ball Jumping&#8221; and other *terrible* Depression Era diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are all courtesy of a 1937 issue of <I>Mechanics and Handicraft<\/i> magazine; click through for a <a title=\"More Pleasure at the Seashore | Modern Mechanix\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.modernmechanix.com\/more-pleasure-at-the-seashore\/\">deeply unsafe barrel-stave kneeboard-ish thing, a floating rifle target (!!!), and more<\/a>.<br \/>\nThat said, *damn* if the kid in the illustration don&#8217;t got some cocky *strut*! You go, beach-ball shoes kid!  I&#8217;ll sign your full-body cast when you get out of the ICU!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Piy-IyB1xfQ\/Uh1SCcFVPzI\/AAAAAAAAANI\/qzTsvWIJTd0\/w345-h606-no\/BeachBallJumping.png\" width=345><br \/>\nvia: <a title=\"More Pleasure at the Seashore | Modern Mechanix\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.modernmechanix.com\/more-pleasure-at-the-seashore\/\">More Pleasure at the Seashore | Modern Mechanix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are all courtesy of a 1937 issue of Mechanics and Handicraft magazine; click through for a deeply unsafe barrel-stave kneeboard-ish thing, a floating rifle target (!!!), and more. That said, *damn* if the kid in the illustration don&#8217;t got some cocky *strut*! You go, beach-ball shoes kid! I&#8217;ll sign your full-body cast when you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/08\/beach-ball-jumping-and-other-terrible-depression-era-diversions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Beach Ball Jumping&#8221; and other *terrible* Depression Era diversions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}