{"id":23254,"date":"2013-11-07T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T00:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=23254"},"modified":"2013-11-07T23:48:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T03:48:53","slug":"cigarette-machine-invention-albert-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/11\/07\/cigarette-machine-invention-albert-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not Hooked On This Patent (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an invention we could have done nicely without: On November 7, 1876, the cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Not Hooked On This Patent (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A patent that now seems obscene<br \/>\nFor the cigarette making machine<br \/>\nHas a birthday today.<br \/>\nAlbert Hook paved the way,<br \/>\nHooking people on cigs to make green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an invention we could have done nicely without: On November 7, 1876, the cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook. I&#8217;m Not Hooked On This Patent (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane A patent that now seems obscene For the cigarette making machine Has a birthday today. Albert Hook paved the way, Hooking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126,49,2693,42,1524,90],"tags":[3911,1001,2063,3906,3912,2093,5012,1206,4963,3653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23254"}],"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=23254"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23264,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23254\/revisions\/23264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}