{"id":5357,"date":"2012-12-13T23:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T03:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2012-12-13T23:28:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T03:28:56","slug":"thursday-night-thats-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/12\/13\/thursday-night-thats-brilliant\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; That&#8217;s brilliant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7557.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just back from the 2nd annual thats brilliant event at echo.. it was&#8230; well, brilliant. Smaller than last year and more focused. Jerome and crew had curated the event well. The topic was winter inventions. there were about 9 inventors there with everything from ski bindings to wings, sleds to ski bikes and even a lawn mower for ice.. It was a great group of people<\/p>\n<p>The highway department was there with their state of the art brine sprayer&#8230;\u00a0 less than half the slat and more effective .\u00a0 pretty cool and comfy, too<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7531.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7532.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7535.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>check out all these controls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7536.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7537.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7538.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7553.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7554.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the voodo balance board folks were there<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7539.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this guy built bikes for snow<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7540.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>a musher sans dogs<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7541.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s the ice mower.. its for hokey rinks, how cool is that ?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7543.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>there were even a couple of talks.. this one was on leg injuries due to ski bindings..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7544.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7546.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>that speakers name was carl ettlinger.. that&#8217;s my mom&#8217;s maiden name !.. No relation though.. at least that we could find.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7547.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>one guy was there with snow wings. i kept thinking.. &#8216;i should get those for sam&#8217;.. sigh..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7550.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this guy made a cool one handed bnding device.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1312\/IMG_7555.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once again.. great to see the creative minds in Vermont come out to play&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>OK.. all for now..<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from the 2nd annual thats brilliant event at echo.. it was&#8230; well, brilliant. Smaller than last year and more focused. Jerome and crew had curated the event well. The topic was winter inventions. there were about 9 inventors there with everything from ski bindings to wings, sleds to ski bikes and even a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/12\/13\/thursday-night-thats-brilliant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; That&#8217;s brilliant<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[644],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-thats-brilliant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}