{"id":41619,"date":"2023-08-20T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/?p=41619"},"modified":"2023-08-20T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:49:56","slug":"how-rubber-bands-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/?p=41619","title":{"rendered":"How Rubber Bands Are Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/23\/07\/how-rubber-bands-are-made\">How Rubber Bands Are Made<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was a blast from the past&#8230;back in the early-mid 1990&#8217;s, when I lived in Yokosuka, at least once a month, I took the time to ride my bike to a stationary store that was off the Navy base to pick up a couple of boxes of O&#8217;Band rubber bands to use to wrap my newspapers. Each box was about $10 USD and they were worth it. They were the absolute best in terms of quality and durability&#8211;they could be used to wrap a daily paper and also the Sunday edition with all of the extra content and ads.<\/p>\n<p>I remember one lady who kept all of the rubber bands and returned them to me when I came to collect monthly payments. The rubber bands were so good that they could be used multiple times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Rubber Bands Are Made. This was a blast from the past&#8230;back in the early-mid 1990&#8217;s, when I lived in Yokosuka, at least once a month, I took the time to ride my bike to a stationary store that was off the Navy base to pick up a couple of boxes of O&#8217;Band rubber bands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41620,"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41619\/revisions\/41620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}