{"id":26350,"date":"2013-12-30T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T18:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=26350"},"modified":"2015-09-16T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:27:38","slug":"jix-straw-sculpture-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/jix-straw-sculpture-connector\/","title":{"rendered":"Jix Straw Sculpture Connector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Straws! Did you know that with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecreativehome.com\/collections\/children\/products\/jix-straw-connector\" target=\"_blank\" >Jix<\/a>, a modular connector by Patrick Martinez, you can build all sorts of sculptures in a matter of minutes? Not many of us will go to the extent of the environment shown in the picture above, but a table-top sized sphere or a rhombohedron, sure. That imagination needs to be exercised, after all, and maybe even your friends, family, or coworkers will get involved building larger shapes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/linx_strawsculptureconnector_context_1_web.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Designer: Patrick Martinez<\/p>\n<p>Made in the USA of post-consumer plastic.<br \/>\nComes 125 to a pack.<\/p>\n<p>Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.module-r.com\/shop\/children\/play-things\/linx-straw-sculpture-connector.html#\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">MODULE R<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"513\" height=\"385\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pNz3V19Z8gM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Link and price updated Sep 16, 2015)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straws! Did you know that with Jix, a modular connector by Patrick Martinez, you can build all sorts of sculptures in a matter of minutes? Not many of us will go to the extent of the environment shown in the picture above, but a table-top sized sphere or a rhombohedron, sure. That imagination needs to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[466,120,124],"tags":[140,451],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/linx_strawsculptureconnector_context_1_web.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32136,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350\/revisions\/32136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}