{"id":733,"date":"2009-01-26T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2009-01-26T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T15:40:50","slug":"masons-first-pinewood-derby-star-wars-anakins-speeder-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/masons-first-pinewood-derby-star-wars-anakins-speeder-car.html","title":{"rendered":"Mason&#8217;s First Pinewood Derby. Star Wars, &#8216;Anakin&#8217;s Speeder&#8217; Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 23, 2009 was the first Pinewood Derby for Mason and me. After a few weeks of work, learning about saws, sandpaper, a little physics, tungsten weights, graphite lube, hobby paint, and many more things that no 7 year old EVER wanted to learn, we put Anakin&#8217;s Speeder to the test. Here were the results.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hX5fWnZqKKU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mason-pinewood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mason-pinewood-460x345.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mason-pinewood\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mason-pinewood-460x345.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mason-pinewood.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Mason with his Star Wars Attack of the Clones, &#8216;Anakin&#8217;s Speeder&#8217; Pinewood Derby Car<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This was a fun project to do together, and an exciting race. This is what scouts is all about. Hopefully next year, Mason can do a little more of the car, while Daddy learns a bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z-4SfW3lv3o\">more about Pinewood Physics<\/a>. We have way too many smart parents in our Pack, we&#8217;ll not be beaten for lack of preparation. See you next year! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 23, 2009 was the first Pinewood Derby for Mason and me. After a few weeks of work, learning about saws, sandpaper, a little physics, tungsten weights, graphite lube, hobby paint, and many more things that no 7 year old EVER wanted to learn, we put Anakin&#8217;s Speeder to the test. Here were the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-pinewood-derby"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}