{"id":199024,"date":"2007-09-18T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/18\/another-senseless-packaging-injury\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T02:19:00","slug":"another-senseless-packaging-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/18\/another-senseless-packaging-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Senseless Packaging Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well Charlie, aka &#8220;the human metronome&#8221;, just got a belated birthday gift from his friend Jonathan, one of those simple electronic drum kits.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it was literally <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">screwed into<\/span> the cardboard box, and the drum sticks were kept in place with some rather tight wire ties.<\/p>\n<p>I did what I was supposed to, using some shears to clip the wire ties, but in attempting to gain purchase, the shears slipped, and I punctured my left thumb.  It bled for about \u00bd hour, though it was not particularly painful.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever came up with these packaging schemes should be staked to an anthill by their tongue.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>No headphone jack, or MIDI port, or any such, but thankfully, Charlie is good about keeping the volume down.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well Charlie, aka &#8220;the human metronome&#8221;, just got a belated birthday gift from his friend Jonathan, one of those simple electronic drum kits.* Unfortunately, it was literally screwed into the cardboard box, and the drum sticks were kept in place with some rather tight wire ties. I did what I was supposed to, using some &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1158,1144,976,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-aggravation","category-consumer-electronics","category-family","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}