{"id":14421,"date":"2016-08-29T11:36:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=14421"},"modified":"2016-08-29T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:36:22","slug":"bowling-ball-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/08\/29\/bowling-ball-pyramid\/","title":{"rendered":"This Guy Made a Pyramid of 1,785 Bowling Balls!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Redditor\u00a0buildingsonfire<\/a>\u00a0recently shared this photo of his dad’s sculpture<\/a>… a PYRAMID made of 1,785 BOWLING BALLS!! It’s 15 years in the making!<\/strong><\/p>\n\"bowling-ball-pyramid\"\n

Here’s some of the answers to the most frequently asked questions…<\/strong><\/p>\n

— Base is… 17×17
\n— Bottom is crushed gravel, not cement, so there’s drainage to prevent standing water\/mosquitos
\n— But, he made sure all the finger holes are pointing down, also to prevent mosquito breeding.
\n— almost all the balls were donations, gifts, or discarded from manufacturers\/alleys
\n— Red row, half way up: all balls manufactured for the Marines, accidentally made 1\/4″ too big for ball return machines, donated from the manufacturer
\n— Blue row, two up: same, but from Navy surplus balls
\n— Black row, above that: same, but from Army surplus<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So cool!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

via Twisted Sifter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Redditor\u00a0buildingsonfire\u00a0recently shared this photo of his dad’s sculpture… a PYRAMID made of 1,785 BOWLING BALLS!! It’s 15 years in the making! Here’s some of the answers to the most frequently asked questions… — Base is… 17×17 — Bottom is crushed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14430,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421\/revisions\/14430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}