{"id":1188,"date":"2003-06-03T07:15:55","date_gmt":"2003-06-03T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/06\/03\/1188.html"},"modified":"2003-06-03T07:15:55","modified_gmt":"2003-06-03T14:15:55","slug":"zorb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/06\/03\/zorb\/","title":{"rendered":"Zorb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was looking at New Zealand tourism sites last night and came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zorb.com\/\">Zorb<\/a> site.  Put a person-sized transparent plastic ball inside a bigger transparent plastic ball, with the space between filled with air.  Now put a person in the inner ball:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He's got about 700 mm of air between him and the ground and this air cushion keeps him safe as he hurtles down the side of a hill at speeds of up to 50 kilometres per hour. ...[As] the ball rolls around, the person ... becomes pinned to the inside, just like water inside a bucket being spun around your head.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Quote from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourism.net.nz\/new-zealand\/attractions\/adventure\/zorbing\/rotorua\/\">Zorb: Rotorua Adventure<\/a> page.)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Peter Gabriel used one of these in a recent concert tour.  Presumably without the hurtling down a hill part.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was looking at New Zealand tourism sites last night and came across the Zorb site. Put a person-sized transparent plastic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}