{"id":250,"date":"2009-12-30T18:57:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T01:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amosfamily.net:8181\/?p=250"},"modified":"2009-12-30T17:07:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T00:07:34","slug":"christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the AWESOME gifts I got this year, I had a great time making a few gifts. \u00a0Two of them were wooden logic puzzles. \u00a0The first one, a &#8216;Soma Cube&#8217;, was discovered by Piet Hein in the mid 1930&#8217;s. \u00a0There are exactly 240 unique\u00a0arrangements\u00a0of the seven pieces to form a cube. \u00a0I made this puzzle out of aromatic cedar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Soma Cube\" src=\"http:\/\/media.amosfamily.net\/img\/soma-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Soma Cube\" src=\"http:\/\/media.amosfamily.net\/img\/soma-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second puzzle is the &#8216;Half-hour Puzzle&#8217;, created by puzzle-master Stewart Coffin. \u00a0This puzzle is slightly harder than the Soma Cube with only 1 solution for the 6 pieces. \u00a0I made this puzzle out of cocobolo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Half-hour Puzzle\" src=\"http:\/\/media.amosfamily.net\/img\/halfhr-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Half-hour Puzzle\" src=\"http:\/\/media.amosfamily.net\/img\/halfhr-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">I got the plans and instructions on how to make these from this book that Laurie gave me a few years ago for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/158923247X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=amosfmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=158923247X\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/media.amosfamily.net\/img\/517h4elaIWL._SL160_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=amosfmedia-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=158923247X\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These turned out well, and I learned a few tricks to speed up the process. \u00a0The best part is that the recipient of the first puzzle wasn&#8217;t able to put it down all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the AWESOME gifts I got this year, I had a great time making a few gifts.  Two of them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,61,3,73,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}