{"id":26364,"date":"2014-05-27T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=26364"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:22:20","slug":"scotch-tape-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/05\/27\/scotch-tape-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Attached To Tape (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered a delicious factoid: what we now know as Scotch Tape was invented by a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/invent\/iow\/drew.html\">banjo player who worked for 3M.<\/a> The inventor, Richard Gurley Drew, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialchem4adhesives.com\/home\/editorial.aspx?id=2471\">patented his adhesive tape on May 27, 1930.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Attached To Tape (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Picture life without 3M Scotch Tape:<br \/>\nStuff we need to affix would escape.<br \/>\nPaper&#8217;s bound to be freed<br \/>\n(Sticky wicket, indeed!)<br \/>\nWhile we&#8217;re stuck, all unglued and agape.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Cellophane Tape Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered a delicious factoid: what we now know as Scotch Tape was invented by a banjo player who worked for 3M. The inventor, Richard Gurley Drew, patented his adhesive tape on May 27, 1930. I&#8217;m Attached To Tape (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Picture life without 3M Scotch Tape: Stuff we need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,2693,42,44],"tags":[4139,4138,4140,4143,4144,4142,3069,3906,2097,5012,1206,4136,4936,1724,4137,4141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26364"}],"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=26364"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26378,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26364\/revisions\/26378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}