{"id":40,"date":"2008-07-05T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/slinky-blast-from-the-past\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T11:05:08","slug":"slinky-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/slinky-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Slinky &#8211; Blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the Early 1940s this toy has been making its way down more stairs than an office worker working on the 50th floor!<\/p>\n<p>Today just juggle the original slinky back and forth in your hands or buy 2 and race them down stairs<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1547\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slinky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1547\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1547\" title=\"slinky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slinky.jpg\" alt=\"Slinky\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slinky.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slinky-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slinky-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/slinky-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slinky Toy still around today<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>How did it all start?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well in 1943, a guy called Richard James, who was a U.S. Naval engineer stationed at the Cramp shipyards in Philadelphia happened to see a spring fall off a table and roll around on the deck. 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