{"id":104,"date":"2019-10-28T20:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/?p=104"},"modified":"2019-10-29T22:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:21:51","slug":"origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/antecedents\/origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the modern-day yo-yo is definitely an American invention, its ancient predecessors far predate the USA. The earliest iteration of the yo-yo is known to have originated in ancient Greece in 500 B.C., but is also believed to have it&#8217;s origins in ancient china as well. Much like today, these devices were created as toys for children, which at the time were known as &#8220;Disks&#8221;. The disks were made out of materials common in Greece at the time, such as wood, metal, and Terracotta. A tradition that would occur at times involved the children sacrificing their toys, such as disks, to the gods when they came of age in order to appease them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/yoyoancient.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"106\" data-link=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/?attachment_id=106\" class=\"wp-image-106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/yoyoancient.jpg 822w, https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/yoyoancient-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/yoyoancient-768x420.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption> Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikenmuseum, Berlin <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"122\" src=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/76d4746e47938546b9401d2a0664d797-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/76d4746e47938546b9401d2a0664d797-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/76d4746e47938546b9401d2a0664d797-1-300x92.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption> Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1928 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/download-12-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\"\/><figcaption>Discovering Mandarin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In the 16th century in the Philippines, another precursor to the yo-yo emerged. This device was not used as a toy however, but as a weapon. Hunters tied small rocks to cords up to 20 feet in length and, after positioning themselves in trees, would launch the rocks at the heads of small animals. A well placed shot would kill them instantly. The cord allowed the weapon to return to the hunters and attack multiple times from the same hiding spot without moving and fear of being discovered.  This discovery proves that the yo-yo&#8217;s origins can be traced to locations all over the world all throughout history. It also just so happens to be where the inventor of the yo-yo, Pedro Flores, emigrated from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/images-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\"\/><figcaption>Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Works Cited: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Goto-Jones, Chris. 2015. \u201cThe High-Stakes World of High-End Yo Yos.\u201d The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company. April 9, 2015. https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/04\/the-yo-yo-effect\/389868\/. <\/li><li> Murfin, Brian. 2012. \u201cExploring the Yo-Yo: Filipino Physics Fun.\u201d Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas 49 (1): 29\u201335. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00368121.2011.591449.\u00a0 <\/li><li> Oliver, Valerie. n.d. \u201c History Of The Yo-Yo.\u201d Museum of Yo-Yo History. Accessed September 25, 2019. http:\/\/www.yoyomuseum.com\/museum_view.php?action=profiles&amp;subaction=yoyo. <\/li><li> Winner, Tara. 2019. \u201cOut of This World: A Brief History of the Yo-Yo.\u201d Out of This World: A Brief History of the Yo-Yo | The Strong. August 20, 2019. https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/blog\/play-stuff\/2017\/05\/out-of-this-world-a-brief-history-of-the-yo-yo <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the modern-day yo-yo is definitely an American invention, its ancient predecessors far predate the USA. The earliest iteration of the yo-yo is known to have originated in ancient Greece in 500 B.C., but is also believed to have it&#8217;s origins in ancient china as well. Much like today, these devices were created as toys &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/antecedents\/origins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Origins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antecedents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/yoyo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}