{"id":428,"date":"2014-03-04T17:43:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:57:13","slug":"something-silly-balloon-skewer-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/something-silly-balloon-skewer-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Silly &#8211; Balloon Skewer Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve teamed up with our fabulous friends at\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sharkyandgeorge.com\/\">Sharky &amp; George<\/a>\u00a0to bring you a weekly dose of silliness!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SomethingSillyBlog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"SomethingSillyBlog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SomethingSillyBlog.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For this week&#8217;s silliness you will need&#8230;you guessed it &#8211; balloons and a skewer<\/p>\n<p><strong>How?<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Blow up 2 balloons and tie a knot in each of them.<br \/>\nPresent a friend or a family member with a skewer and challenge them to put it all the way through the first balloon and out the other side without bursting the balloon.<br \/>\nWhen he pushes the skewer into the balloon it will go POP!<\/p>\n<p>The trick:<br \/>\nNow get the second balloon and put the skewer into it just next to the knot and push it out at the top.<br \/>\nwith a bit of luck it won&#8217;t pop!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/03\/04-Balloon-Trick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-430\" alt=\"04 Balloon Trick\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/03\/04-Balloon-Trick.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/03\/04-Balloon-Trick.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2014\/03\/04-Balloon-Trick-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tune in next week for more silliness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve teamed up with our fabulous friends at\u00a0Sharky &amp; George\u00a0to bring you a weekly dose of silliness! &nbsp; For this week&#8217;s silliness you will need&#8230;you guessed it &#8211; balloons and a skewer How? Blow up 2 balloons and tie a knot in each of them. Present a friend or a family member with a skewer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/something-silly-balloon-skewer-trick\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[157,8,69,43,86,12,143,144,298,183,371,369,119,47],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-families","category-uncategorized","tag-balloons","tag-children","tag-fun","tag-games","tag-healthy","tag-kids","tag-sharky-george","tag-sharky-and-george","tag-silliness","tag-silly","tag-skewers","tag-somethjing-silly","tag-summer","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}