{"id":26500,"date":"2009-05-20T20:46:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/20\/the-dumbest-thing-ive-seen-all\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T20:46:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:46:38","slug":"the-dumbest-thing-ive-seen-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/the-dumbest-thing-ive-seen-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The dumbest thing I&#8217;ve seen all day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; almost.<\/p>\n<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oooms.nl\/solar-birdhouse\/\">Solar Birdhouse<\/a>. The idea is that the bird house sits there and collects energy from the sun all day and stores it in a battery, then at night, there is a kind of nightlight that lights up the perch on the front of the birdhouse.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ad that was mailed to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why would only humans make use of eco-friendly technology? Studio OOOMS designed a birdhouse with a solar panel on it&#8217;s roof. During the day sunlight feeds the solar panel , charging a small battery inside. At twilight the transparent stick will light up and cast a tiny light on your garden.<br \/>\nThis light attracts an easy nighttime snack for the bird; all she has to do is stick her beak out of the hole and wait for the buzz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can you spot the things that are wrong with this picture???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; almost. This is the Solar Birdhouse. The idea is that the bird house sits there and collects energy from the sun all day and stores it in a battery, then at night, there is a kind of nightlight that lights up the perch on the front of the birdhouse. According to the ad that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/the-dumbest-thing-ive-seen-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The dumbest thing I&#8217;ve seen all day.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Tq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}