{"id":5900,"date":"2010-04-18T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T12:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2010-04-18T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T18:01:00","slug":"the-greatest-invention-that-ever-defeated-its-own-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/the-greatest-invention-that-ever-defeated-its-own-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Invention That Ever Defeated Its Own Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ladies and Gentlemen, now that I am an industrial lawnmower kind of guy, I need hearing protection. So I bought (and exchanged a defective unit as aforementioned or aaftmentioned depending on whether you read daily or not) hearing protection.<\/p>\n

Sort of.<\/p>\n

Here’s the unit I bought:<\/p>\n

\n\"Worktunes<\/p>\n

They even come preset to the Dana Show<\/a> (look at the photo of the LCD radio setting, it’s 97.1 FM, which is the talk radio station in St. Louis, he explained parenthetically).<\/p>\n

Why do I say it defeats its own purpose?<\/p>\n

Because it’s designed to protect your hearing from the lawnmower’s decibels. However, if you’re listening to a rock station, you’re likely, if you’re like me, to substitute the lawnmower’s decibels for Metallica’s decibels. Which ultimately doesn’t protect your hearing at all.<\/p>\n

Maybe its purpose is to not to protect your hearing, but to destroy your hearing in a more enjoyable fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ladies and Gentlemen, now that I am an industrial lawnmower kind of guy, I need hearing protection. So I bought (and exchanged a defective unit as aforementioned or aaftmentioned depending on whether you read daily or not) hearing protection. Sort of. Here’s the unit I bought: They even come preset to the Dana Show (look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}