{"id":2694,"date":"2021-10-06T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:17:32","slug":"on-the-occasion-of-his-365th-day-spent-shredding-guitar-and-filing-patents-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2021\/10\/on-the-occasion-of-his-365th-day-spent-shredding-guitar-and-filing-patents-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"On the occasion of his 365th day spent shredding guitar and filing patents in Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a real illustration for a <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US4656917A\/en\">real patent<\/a> really filed by (and granted to) Eddie Van Halen\u2014yes, <em>that<\/em> <strong>Eddie Van Halen<\/strong> of the band Van Halen, may his memory be for a blessing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/US4656917-drawings-page-2-691x1024.png\" alt=\"Fig 1, US Patent 4,656,917, &quot;Musical instrument support,&quot; Eddie Van Halen\" class=\"wp-image-2696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/US4656917-drawings-page-2-691x1024.png 691w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/US4656917-drawings-page-2-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/US4656917-drawings-page-2-768x1138.png 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/US4656917-drawings-page-2.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6M4_Ommfvv0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>(<strong>FUN FACT<\/strong>: The above video has not &#8220;aged poorly&#8221;; it was exactly as offensive in 1984 as it is today. Also, still hella catchy.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a real illustration for a real patent really filed by (and granted to) Eddie Van Halen\u2014yes, that Eddie Van Halen of the band Van Halen, may his memory be for a blessing. (FUN FACT: The above video has not &#8220;aged poorly&#8221;; it was exactly as offensive in 1984 as it is today. Also, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2021\/10\/on-the-occasion-of-his-365th-day-spent-shredding-guitar-and-filing-patents-in-heaven\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the occasion of his 365th day spent shredding guitar and filing patents in Heaven&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[19,11,3],"tags":[42,21,223,90,584,583,582],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694"}],"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=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}