{"id":98880966,"date":"2011-09-02T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/las-vegas-business-owner-creates-adult-sandbox-with-old-construction-equipment\/"},"modified":"2011-09-02T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:25:00","slug":"las-vegas-business-owner-creates-adult-sandbox-with-old-construction-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/las-vegas-business-owner-creates-adult-sandbox-with-old-construction-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Business Owner Creates Adult Sandbox with Old Construction Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn recent years, the struggling economy in Las Vegas has halted dozens of proposed Sin City construction projects.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThanks to one entrepreneurial business owner, however, not all of Vegas&rsquo; building equipment lay dormant.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEd Mumm has created Dig This, an adult sandbox complete with heavy-duty construction equipment that paying adults can use to push dirt around and work off some frustration.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCustomers pay up to $750 to use Mumm&rsquo;s excavators and bulldozers to their liking for hours on end. All it takes is a 10-minute instructional class and some added radio guidance from supervising professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn any given day, thrill-seeking adults can be seen using heavy duty equipment to dig trenches, flip monster truck tires, or scoop up basketballs. The life-sized sandbox is located just off the Las Vegas Strip where remnants of some of the city&rsquo;s abandoned projects can still be seen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/44371540\/ns\/travel-destination_travel\/?ocid=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, the struggling economy in Las Vegas has halted dozens of proposed Sin City construction projects. &nbsp; Thanks to one entrepreneurial business owner, however, not all of Vegas&rsquo; building equipment lay dormant. &nbsp; Ed Mumm has created Dig This, an adult sandbox complete with heavy-duty construction equipment that paying adults can use to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}