{"id":139,"date":"2009-06-16T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-06-16T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T17:43:57","slug":"get-knotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Get Knotted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a product that I am working on, I need to attach a rope to the product. Simple, I thought, tie a knot. My first feeble attempts fell apart. Later attempts did the job, but looked a mess. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realknots.com\/knots\/sloops.htm\">quick Google later<\/a>, and I had a knot that seems to do the job. The tucked double overhand. Three simple images are enough to explain how the knot works. Moments later I had the knot off pat, and decided to show the production department.<\/p>\n<p>All of a sudden we hit a problem. For some reason, no one else is able to tie this knot! I can&#8217;t believe that I am particularly gifted in this area, but maybe I am not a dumb as I think sometimes. Is this a hard knot?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"660\" height=\"525\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cArTTtm76lk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cArTTtm76lk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"660\" height=\"525\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This animation was done in Povray. I got fed up of trying to show the knot to people, so next time they ask, they will get a link to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a product that I am working on, I need to attach a rope to the product. Simple, I thought, tie a knot. My first feeble attempts fell apart. Later attempts did the job, but looked a mess. A quick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[60,59,96,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}