{"id":7660,"date":"2014-04-29T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T05:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2014-03-15T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T16:57:41","slug":"atozchallenge-y-yoyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=7660","title":{"rendered":"#AtoZChallenge &#8211; Y is for Yo-Yo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Yo-Yo<\/h1>\n<p>I remember having a number of yo-yos throughout my childhood &#8211; wooden, plastic, large and small.<\/p>\n<p>The one pictured below is similar to the ones I had that usually came once a year in a Christmas stocking.<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"wooden yo-yo\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/92\/Wooden_yo-yo.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Xuli\u00e1nConX (http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xulianconx\/824067292\/) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>Some people became extremely adept with their toys and learned to do all sorts of <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.howstuffworks.com\/easy-yo-yo-tricks.htm\" target=\"_blank\">tricks<\/a> with them from the basics like walk the dog, to the more complex like shoot the moon. I never quite mastered that so just up and down and the occasional flip of the wrist was the extent of my prowess.<\/p>\n<p>There are even yo-yo competitions. So if you think you&#8217;re up to the challenge, get practising and maybe someday you&#8217;ll be off to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldyoyocontest.com\/2014worlds\/\" target-\"_blank\">World Championships<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the various types of yo-yos at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yo-yo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duncan Toys<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yo-Yo I remember having a number of yo-yos throughout my childhood &#8211; wooden, plastic, large and small. The one pictured below is similar to the ones I had that usually came once a year in a Christmas stocking. Some people became extremely adept with their toys and learned to do all sorts of tricks with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=7660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#AtoZChallenge &#8211; Y is for Yo-Yo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,163,430,429],"tags":[1070,431,1082,1081],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atozchallenge","category-competition","category-toy","category-yo-yo","tag-atozchallenge","tag-duncan-toys","tag-toy","tag-yo-yo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>#AtoZChallenge - Y is for Yo-Yo - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yo-yo - a toy that despite its simplicity is quite complex.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=7660\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#AtoZChallenge - Y is for Yo-Yo - Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yo-yo - a toy that despite its simplicity is quite complex.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=7660\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-04-29T05:01:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/92\/Wooden_yo-yo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Melanie\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Melanie\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/melanierobertson-king.com\\\/wp02\\\/?p=7660#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/melanierobertson-king.com\\\/wp02\\\/?p=7660\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Melanie\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/melanierobertson-king.com\\\/wp02\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/fc1dc45dd87a15ec9c0044a4fe9cd612\"},\"headline\":\"#AtoZChallenge &#8211; 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