{"id":160,"date":"2008-10-03T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T18:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medievaldiva.com\/just-fun-stuff\/roman-ballista-ebay"},"modified":"2008-10-03T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T18:37:43","slug":"roman-ballista-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/03\/roman-ballista-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Ballista on Ebay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everything you need can be found at Goodwill, Walmart, or Ebay.  Want proof?<\/p>\n<p>A full size, workable ballista is currently at auction.\u00c2\u00a0 Not just any ballista but a CELEBRITY ballista at that.\u00c2\u00a0 (Does that make it a celebrista?)\u00c2\u00a0 Originally made for a joint BBC\/ Discovery Channel production, &#8220;Building the Impossible,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 this baby can be YOURS!<\/p>\n<p>We love this video (and not just cause we love Peter Gabriel!)<\/p>\n<p width=\"425\" height=\"344\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"height\" value=\"344\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"425\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jn2wbZow8cw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jn2wbZow8cw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hurry and <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.co.uk\/Full-size-replica-Roman-seige-catapult-ballista_W0QQitemZ180295129086QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180295129086&amp;_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&amp;_trksid=p3286.c0.m14\">place your bid<\/a> now before its going, going, gooooone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Everything you need can be found at Goodwill, Walmart, or Ebay. Want proof? A full size, workable ballista is currently at auction.\u00c2\u00a0 Not just any ballista but a CELEBRITY ballista at that.\u00c2\u00a0 (Does that make it a celebrista?)\u00c2\u00a0 Originally made for a joint BBC\/ Discovery Channel production, &#8220;Building the Impossible,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 this baby can be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/03\/roman-ballista-ebay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roman Ballista on Ebay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[50,103,171,207,234,236,242,265,273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}