{"id":1345,"date":"2007-10-01T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2007-10-01T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T12:00:27","slug":"dice-stacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Dice Stacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am continually amazed by the absurd and useless things people learn to do.  There seem to be entire hobbies and skill sets that have no other purpose outside of making amusing YouTube videos.  See also: Cup stacking.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MIayUEi_KGo\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MIayUEi_KGo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>How long does it take to lean to do something like this, as compared to (say) learning to Tap Dance or play the Violin?<\/p>\n<p>Still, I gotta hand it to them:  That is really amazing.  It didn&#8217;t even look <em>possible<\/em> for the first few seconds. At first I thought it was a magic trick.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am continually amazed by the absurd and useless things people learn to do. There seem to be entire hobbies and skill sets that have no other purpose outside of making amusing YouTube videos. See also: Cup stacking. How long does it take to lean to do something like this, as compared to (say) learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}