{"id":11810,"date":"2012-03-13T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2014-03-17T17:53:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T21:53:30","slug":"rubber-band-invention-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/03\/13\/rubber-band-invention-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The Rubber Band (Patented March 17, 1845)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/03\/12\/girl-scouts-birthday-humor\/\">Girl Scouts<\/a> are celebrating their centennial  birthday this week.  But that&#8217;s just one of many significant occasions this month.<\/p>\n<p>We commemorated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/03\/07\/international-womens-day-humor\/\">International Women&#8217;s Day<\/a> last week. And math fans will be celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/15\/pi-day-humor\/\">Pi Day<\/a> on March 14th. And, of course, just about everyone will be enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/16\/limerick-ode-to-st-patricks-day\/\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/a> on March 17th.  <\/p>\n<p>But St. Patrick&#8217;s Day has to share its day with a lesser known celebration: On March 17, 1845, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rubber_band\">Stephen Perry patented the rubber band<\/a> in England:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The Rubber Band<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no stretch to contend this invention<br \/>\nPrevents loss using rubbery tension.<br \/>\nThose elasticized bands&#8211;<br \/>\nLoopy tools in our hands!<br \/>\nThis retention aid merits ascension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned yesterday, the Girl Scouts are celebrating their centennial birthday this week. But that&#8217;s just one of many significant occasions this month. We commemorated International Women&#8217;s Day last week. And math fans will be celebrating Pi Day on March 14th. And, of course, just about everyone will be enjoying St. Patrick&#8217;s Day on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,33,2693,42],"tags":[2063,1837,2694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25275,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions\/25275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}