{"id":684,"date":"2005-08-14T20:32:39","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T01:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=684"},"modified":"2005-08-14T21:15:43","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T02:15:43","slug":"unsafe-nerfs-back-in-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/unsafe-nerfs-back-in-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsafe nerfs (back in the day)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/content\/Images\/Home\/Gallery\/nerf.gif\" alt=\"burning nerf ball\" align=right \/><br \/>\nPossibly and probably Nerf Balls no longer no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/main\/content\/aboutus.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=457435&#038;ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=456975&#038;bmUID=1124064304335\">longer burst &#8220;into flames about two seconds after contact with a lit match&#8221;<\/a> as Consumer Reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/content\/Home\/Gallery\/Photos\/197103.jpg?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=457435&#038;ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=456975&#038;bmUID=1124064304471\">discovered that they did back in 1971.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/main\/content\/aboutus.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=457417&#038;ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=456975&#038;bmUID=1124064304453\">You can thrill to pictures and tests of vintage products from Consumer Reports testing<\/a> while I run out and pour some gasoline down a yellow jacket nest. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s safety question: Do I set the nest on fire after dousing it or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly and probably Nerf Balls no longer no longer burst &#8220;into flames about two seconds after contact with a lit match&#8221; as Consumer Reports discovered that they did back in 1971. You can thrill to pictures and tests of vintage products from Consumer Reports testing while I run out and pour some gasoline down a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}