{"id":22,"date":"2007-09-19T01:05:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T01:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/19\/do-it-yourselfers\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T01:05:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T01:05:25","slug":"do-it-yourselfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2007\/09\/19\/do-it-yourselfers\/","title":{"rendered":"Do-it-yourselfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;ve always admired do-it-yourselfers, builders, creators&#8230;mainly because I am so not one.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Since he was a kid, my brother was a natural at working with his hands. One time, he got in trouble for stealing the garage opener and taking it apart. My sister and I exchanged evil glances as we reveled in the thought of how yelled at he would get. But once our parents realized he had used the parts to build a miniature hand-held fan, they were like Oh. Damn. Nice job! Now he&#8217;s an engineer for Caltrans, go figure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Unlike him, the extent of my talent for making stuff (other than, say, assembling IKEA furniture) starts and ends with shapeless lumps of play-doh. Thus, I prefer to step aside and let those who possess such talent work their magic.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Take the Wah-Wah Boots for example:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">[googlevideo=http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-2265253317431829320&amp;hl=en]<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Not to mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odbol.com\/\" title=\"this guy\" target=\"_blank\">this guy<\/a> and his DrumPants:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2BK4deK7HM?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">What&#8217;s next, the Maraca Bra? Harmonica Scarf? My friends and I often discuss the potential awesomeness of the Steering Wheel Drum Kit, but we think there might be a few legal hurdles in the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always admired do-it-yourselfers, builders, creators&#8230;mainly because I am so not one. Since he was a kid, my brother was a natural at working with his hands. One time, he got in trouble for stealing the garage opener and taking it apart. My sister and I exchanged evil glances as we reveled in the thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[25,37],"tags":[568,1966],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}