{"id":12761,"date":"2013-11-06T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T22:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=12761"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:26:40","slug":"video-feature-pumpkins-lose-in-historic-battle-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=12761","title":{"rendered":"Video feature: Pumpkins lose in historic battle demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History got a little more exciting for students last week.<\/p>\n<p>Using leftover jack-o-lanterns, students in History 1020 and several engineering students demonstrated a medieval weapon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 1 on the West Lawn.<\/p>\n<p>As the one-fifth scale 13th century Cantigas de Santa Maria Trebuchet chucked pumpkins, Roger Martinez provided historical commentary and encouragement. The event drew dozens of passersby as well as two Colorado Springs television stations.<\/p>\n<p>See a video of the event<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gDzHcifWgSE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related stories<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=12541\">Post-Halloween pumpkins to demonstrate medieval history<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Video by Jeff Foster, University Advancement<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>History got a little more exciting for students last week. Using leftover jack-o-lanterns, students in History 1020 and several engineering students demonstrated a medieval weapon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 1 on the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=12761\" title=\"Video feature: Pumpkins lose in historic battle demonstration\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-12761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-photo-features","tag-photo-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/p12761.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-3jP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12763,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions\/12763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}