Portable self-standing hammock frame with shortened hammock and method for suspending shortened hammock on a frame

A corner end cap comprising:

• a frame tube receiving socket;
• an end bar receiving socket connected to the frame tube receiving socket at a substantially orthogonal angle and where the end bar receiving socket includes a socket formed in an end surface of the corner end cap and the socket being configured to receive a screw bolt to affix additional items to the corner end cap;
• a plurality of frame extension sockets formed in a plurality of non-contiguous outside surfaces of an octagonal-shaped end of the end bar receiving socket where the plurality of non-contiguous outside surfaces of the octagonal-shaped end of the end bar receiving socket are substantially orthogonal to the end surface of the end bar receiving socket and an axis of each of the frame extension sockets are substantially orthogonal to each other;
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• a ring connected on a first edge to an outside surface of the frame tube receiving socket and connected on an adjacent second edge to an outside surface of the end bar receiving socket.

A corner end cap comprising:

• a frame tube receiving socket;
• an end bar receiving socket connected to the frame tube receiving socket at a substantially orthogonal angle;
• a plurality of frame extension sockets formed in a plurality of non-contiguous outside surfaces of an octagonal-shaped end of the end bar receiving socket that where the plurality of non-contiguous outside surfaces of the octagonal-shaped end of the end bar receiving socket are substantially orthogonal to an end surface of the end bar receiving socket of the end bar receiving socket and an axis of each of the frame extension sockets are substantially orthogonal to each other, the end surface having a plurality of sockets formed therein;
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• a ring connected on a first edge to an outside surface of the frame tube receiving socket and connected on an adjacent second edge to an outside surface of the end bar receiving socket.