{"id":76229,"date":"2020-12-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76229"},"modified":"2020-12-22T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:17:22","slug":"the-spirit-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76229","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit Of The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someday, when I&#8217;m absolute ruler and I impose a libertarian society by force, it&#8217;ll be legal to boobytrap packages to maim and mutilate &#8220;porch pirates&#8221;.   So help me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But until then, as Covid-era buying patters beget yet another wave of porch piracy plagues yet another holiday season, I figured this we the pick-me-up we all need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xoxhDk-hwuo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not <em>enough <\/em>fun to assuage your rage? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, lhere&#8217;sthe sequel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glitter Bomb 2.0 vs Porch Pirates\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_TSR_v07m0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And then, bigger and badder than before, this year&#8217;s episode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glitterbomb 3.0 vs. Porch Pirates\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h4T_LlK1VE4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And what the heck &#8211; since I know some of my readers are engineers, and others are just plain diabolical (but in a good way), here&#8217;s the how-to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X_Ij19EKT3s\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I, myself, see a glorious commercial manufacturing and marketing opportunity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someday, when I&#8217;m absolute ruler and I impose a libertarian society by force, it&#8217;ll be legal to boobytrap packages to maim and mutilate &#8220;porch pirates&#8221;. 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But until then, as Covid-era buying patters beget yet another wave of porch piracy plagues yet another holiday season, I figured this we the pick-me-up we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76230,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76229\/revisions\/76230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}