{"id":2299,"date":"2018-09-17T14:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2018-09-17T14:12:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T18:12:20","slug":"how-one-grieving-father-got-lawn-darts-banned-mental-floss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"How One Grieving Father Got Lawn Darts Banned | Mental Floss"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lawn darts, or Jarts, were all the rage in the 1980s. With a few Jarts, a few friends, and a few beers, American backyard-barbecue-goers would lay down small plastic hoops as targets and play a game not entirely unlike horseshoes. Each player would toss the darts into the air, attempting to arc them into the opposite ring. While the darts, which had a metal spike and plastic fins on the sides for flight stability, were not especially sharp, they were weighted. They picked up enough speed to come sailing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/31176\/how-one-dad-got-lawn-darts-banned\">How One Grieving Father Got Lawn Darts Banned | Mental Floss<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawn darts, or Jarts, were all the rage in the 1980s. With&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}