{"id":7755,"date":"2026-05-02T18:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/programma\/defy-the-whirlwind-machine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:58:52","slug":"defy-the-whirlwind-machine","status":"publish","type":"programma","link":"https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/en\/program\/defy-the-whirlwind-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Defy the whirlwind machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You surely know this feeling: you\u2019re watching someone doing something on TV and you think to yourself &#8216;I could do that much better&#8217; or \u2018that can\u2019t be that difficult\u2019. Squid games, \u2018de Mol\u2019, Survivor, Wipeout&#8230; We\u2019ll start small with a challenge you&#8217;ve probably seen on old American TV shows: the whirlwind machine! Catch as many balls as possible, whizzing around your head like a tornado. Watch closely how others do it and you\u2019ll probably come up with an even better strategy. Show us how it\u2019s done!     <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7729\" src=\"https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Foto_Rijksmuseum-Boerhaave_Trotseer-de-wervelwindmachine-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Foto_Rijksmuseum-Boerhaave_Trotseer-de-wervelwindmachine-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Foto_Rijksmuseum-Boerhaave_Trotseer-de-wervelwindmachine-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Foto_Rijksmuseum-Boerhaave_Trotseer-de-wervelwindmachine-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Foto_Rijksmuseum-Boerhaave_Trotseer-de-wervelwindmachine.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7754,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"class_list":["post-7755","programma","type-programma","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programma\/7755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programma"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/programma"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumnachtleiden.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}