{"id":349,"date":"2011-12-15T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2012-01-30T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:13:00","slug":"349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Big Mouth Billy Bass sings all the way to the bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/innovation\/inventions\/5-weird-inventions-that-made-millions.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Doggles\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6d\/Military_working_dog_in_UH-60_Black_Hawk.jpg\/260px-Military_working_dog_in_UH-60_Black_Hawk.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie hops aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, along with Iraqi security forces and Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division.\" width=\"195\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy U.S. Army.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some inventions save people\u2019s lives, others improve them and still others end up as the white elephant gift no one wants to take home. Sometimes the question isn\u2019t, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t I think of that?\u201d it\u2019s, \u201cWhy would <em>anyone<\/em> think of that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, if benefit to humankind were the only means of making a profit, there would be no reality TV. In that spirit, here\u2019s a list of ten kooky creations that made a mint, including one that turned out to fill a legitimate need.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/innovation\/inventions\/5-weird-inventions-that-made-millions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">10 Weird Inventions That Made Millions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some inventions save people\u2019s lives, others improve them and still others end up as the white elephant gift no one wants to take home. Sometimes the question isn\u2019t, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t I think of that?\u201d it\u2019s, \u201cWhy would anyone think of that?\u201d Well, if benefit to humankind were the only means of making a profit, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Mouth Billy Bass sings all the way to the bank<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,94,46,4,13,30,207],"tags":[215,216,208,217,5,212,211,219,210,209,218,213,214],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-culture","category-engineering","category-gadgets","category-history","category-technology","category-top-10","category-weird","tag-big-mouth-billy-bass","tag-billy-bob-teeth","tag-doggles","tag-furby","tag-inventors","tag-koosh","tag-magic-8-ball","tag-pet-rock","tag-slanket","tag-snuggie","tag-tamagotchi","tag-toy","tag-wishbone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}