{"id":13674,"date":"2017-12-29T20:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T01:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13674"},"modified":"2018-01-01T20:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T01:53:55","slug":"super-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13674","title":{"rendered":"Super Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13676\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171229_149224.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13676\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171229_149224-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Super Balls\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13676\" data-wp-pid=\"13676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171229_149224-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171229_149224-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171229_149224-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171229_149224-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171229_149224-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171229_149224.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Balls<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy was going through some boxes of small objects this evening and among other things, she found a bunch of super balls. I&#8217;ve always loved super balls and they are a real fixture of my childhood. What I didn&#8217;t know is that I was among the first generation to enjoy these highly bouncy balls. On August 25, 1965, Norman Stingley filed a patent for what he called a &#x201c;Highly Resilient Polybutadiene Ball&#x201d; (<a href=\"http:\/\/pdfpiw.uspto.gov\/.piw?docid=03241834&#038;SectionNum=1&#038;IDKey=07A313B43E96\" target=\"_USPTO\">patent number 3,241,834, issued March 22, 1966<\/a>). The Super Ball&#xae; was sold by Wham-O&#xae; and was an instant success. I know my brothers and I got many hours of enjoyment from them. They are made of a synthetic rubber called Zectron&#xae; that is primarily polybutadiene molded under high pressure and heat. All I knew as a kid was they really could bounce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy was going through some boxes of small objects this evening and among other things, she found a bunch of super balls. I&#8217;ve always loved super balls and they are a real fixture of my childhood. What I didn&#8217;t know is that I was among the first generation to enjoy these highly bouncy balls. On &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[402,405,403,404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13681,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions\/13681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}