{"id":65,"date":"2001-01-01T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T08:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2007-01-07T00:43:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T23:43:28","slug":"crossbows-and-catapults-pre-ten-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2001\/01\/crossbows-and-catapults-pre-ten-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossbows and Catapults &#8211; Pre Ten years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Toys\/crossbowsAndCatapults.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>As a child &#8220;Crossbows and Catapults was a firm favourite. The aim of the game was to land a counter of your colour onto the treasure mat of the enemy. You&#8217;d have a set of bricks with which to try to protect your own treasure and a set of attack weapons (a crossbow and a catapult). You also had a set of little soldiers to place. If all your soldiers got knocked over, you&#8217;d lose. I spend hours playing this game with my best friend, Nick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child &#8220;Crossbows and Catapults was a firm favourite. The aim of the game was to land a counter of your colour onto the treasure mat of the enemy. You&#8217;d have a set of bricks with which to try to protect your own treasure and a set of attack weapons (a crossbow and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}