{"id":180,"date":"2012-12-19T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T09:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/12\/19\/o-vibro-tannenbaum\/"},"modified":"2012-12-19T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T09:38:54","slug":"o-vibro-tannenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/12\/o-vibro-tannenbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"O Vibro-Tannenbaum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not such the Christmas Tree guy, but many of you are (statistically speaking), so I submitted for your consideration: <B>The Christmas Tree Vibrator<\/B> (a phrase that I otherwise *DO NOT* suggest googling without SafeSearch firmly in place).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/content\/dam\/slate\/blogs\/the_vault\/2012\/12\/19\/xmasvibrator.jpg.CROP.article920-large.jpg\" width=300 align =left hspace=10 vspace=15><br \/>\n<a title=\"Christmas Tree Vibrator: Odd invention aimed to shake up your holiday tree\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_vault\/2012\/12\/19\/christmas_tree_vibrator_odd_invention_aimed_to_shake_up_your_holiday_tree.html\">Christmas Tree Vibrator: Odd invention aimed to shake up your holiday tree<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=blkq>This 1947 patent for a \u201cChristmas Tree Vibrator\u201d turns out to be more confusing than risque.<br \/>\nThe inventor, Leo R. Smith, argued that a vibrating tree was a way to make ornaments look prettier. The vibratory unit \u201cfor attachment to decorated trees\u201d would \u201ctransmit a highly pleasing two-dimensional vibration thereto without interference with the decorations.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not such the Christmas Tree guy, but many of you are (statistically speaking), so I submitted for your consideration: The Christmas Tree Vibrator (a phrase that I otherwise *DO NOT* suggest googling without SafeSearch firmly in place). Christmas Tree Vibrator: Odd invention aimed to shake up your holiday tree This 1947 patent for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/12\/o-vibro-tannenbaum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O Vibro-Tannenbaum!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}