{"id":20,"date":"2017-07-04T20:12:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2017-09-28T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:31:54","slug":"rubber-band-ball","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Band Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Rubber Band Ball<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I was once a postman for four months. It was not a happy time. I ended every day with pockets full of rubber bands from the bundles of post I had delivered. Each day I took them home and added them to a gradually growing rubber band ball. It made me feel a little better; like I was taking something back.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I left, the ball was seven inches in diameter.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past fifteen years, it has gradually decomposed, occasionally pinging in the corner of the room as it sheds its layers, undoing the tension from which it was made.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rubber-Band-Ball-7.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-82 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rubber-Band-Ball-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rubber-Band-Ball-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rubber-Band-Ball-3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rubber-Band-Ball-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rubber-Band-Ball-5.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rubber-Band-Ball-6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rubber Band Ball I was once a postman for four months. It was not a happy time. I ended every day with pockets full of rubber bands from the bundles of post I had delivered. Each day I took them home and added them to a gradually growing rubber band ball. It made me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraintedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}