{"id":944,"date":"2006-06-17T17:39:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T21:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/?p=944"},"modified":"2014-12-30T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T22:05:09","slug":"jamming-with-yo-yos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/jamming-with-yo-yos\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamming with Yo-Yos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pedro Flores\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2006\/06\/yo.yo_.pedro_.flores.115px.jpg\" alt=\"Pedro Flores\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The yo-yo is a widely known but little understood solo sports device with a colorful history of immigrant enterprise, business ingenuity, and mechanical invention. This program unites these legacies with an exciting look at what masters of the yo-yo are accomplishing today.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"goBoxContainer\"><span class=\"goBox\"><span class=\"bold\">Time:<\/span><br \/>\nSaturday, June 17, 2006, 12:30 &#8211; 3:45 p.m.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span class=\"bold\">Location:<\/span><br \/>\nFlag Hall<br \/>\nNational Museum of American History<br \/>\n14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Filipino immigrant Pedro Flores would hardly recognize the wooden toy he introduced to California children in the 1920s. Today&#8217;s yo-yo combines modern metals and plastics with high speeds, colors, and the muscular skills of young people to create a blizzard of string tricks and freehand yo-yo gymnastics.<\/p>\n<p>Also part of the program was Team Yo-Yo Jam, a group of young performers traveling the country to compete in yo-yo events and perform for the public. This year&#8217;s team included national and international award winners, both male and female.<\/p>\n<p>David Shayt, National Museum of American History curator, gave remarks on the history of the yo-yo before the performances by Team Yo-Yo Jam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The yo-yo is a widely known but little understood solo sports device with a colorful history of immigrant enterprise, business ingenuity, and mechanical invention. This program unites these legacies with an exciting look at what masters of the yo-yo are accomplishing today. Time: Saturday, June&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8404,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/8404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}