{"id":132328,"date":"2020-12-01T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=132328"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:54:19","slug":"how-to-put-your-head-through-a-piece-of-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/leisure\/games-tricks\/how-to-put-your-head-through-a-piece-of-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Put Your Head Through a Piece of Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Can put your head through a piece of paper? Even with a full-size piece of printer paper, this can seem impossible. Doing it with just a strip a paper seems doubly so.<\/p>\n<p>Challenging other people to stick their head through a piece of paper makes for a fun gag, because its achievement initially seems hopeless, and then becomes delightfully revelatory once you know the secret. Which goes like this:<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: Cut a piece of paper into fourths.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_132330\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132330\" class=\"wp-image-132330 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper1-1.jpeg 413w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper1-1-320x426.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-132330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The challenge is more impressive when you do it with smaller pieces of paper. It can be done with paper as small as 2 X 5.5 inches.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Step 2: Fold the paper in half lengthwise.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132331\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper2.jpeg 413w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper2-320x426.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 3: Make about 12 cuts into the folded side of the paper.<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_132332\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132332\" class=\"wp-image-132332 \" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper3.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper3-320x230.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper3-640x461.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-132332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do not cut all the way through.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Step 4: Make cuts in the open side, cutting between the cuts you just made on the folded side.<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_132333\" style=\"width: 613px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132333\" class=\"wp-image-132333 \" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper4.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper4-320x260.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper4-640x519.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-132333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do not cut all the way through.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_132340\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132340\" class=\"wp-image-132340 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper-show.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper-show.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper-show-320x240.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-132340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what it should look like.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Step 5: Cut across the fold, beginning from inside the first cut and ending at the last.<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_132335\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132335\" class=\"wp-image-132335 \" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper6.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper6-320x312.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-132335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do not cut through the edges of the paper.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Step 6: Unfurl and put on head.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-132337\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper7.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper7-320x251.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper7-640x502.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132338\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper8.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper8-320x240.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can put your head through a piece of paper? Even with a full-size piece of printer paper, this can seem impossible. Doing it with just a strip a paper seems doubly so. Challenging other people to stick their head through a piece of paper makes for a fun gag, because its achievement initially seems hopeless, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,42273],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-132328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-tricks","category-living"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper8-538x280.jpeg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper8-372x230.jpeg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paper8-320x240.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132381,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132328\/revisions\/132381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132328"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=132328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}