{"id":1291,"date":"2009-02-17T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:20:26","slug":"a367-pull-tab-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"#a367 :: Pull-tab collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021709.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1292\" title=\"021709\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021709-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"021709\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021709-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021709-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021709.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=601\">Used to be<\/a> you&#8217;d tear open a can of beer (or pop or soda or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FClamato&amp;ei=WSmcSZrKLomQtQOU5KmhAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNG7Gb2tgz2VUDTcwLP9Q1vhAcsQYg&amp;sig2=8L2LLio8Dd03fG8EaFFQwA\">Clamato<\/a> or whatever) and throw away the aluminum tab. Or maybe you&#8217;d chuck it inside and risk swallowing it, \u00a0lacerating your throat or lungs, and winding up a footnote in the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>But at some point (1975, thank you <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beverage_can\">Daniel Cudzik<\/a> of Reynolds Metals in Richmond, Va.), industry came up with a better way of sealing cans.<\/p>\n<p>Now you pop a can, flip the tab back down (unless you want it sticking up your nose), guzzle and trash &#8230; er, recycle.<\/p>\n<p>These were found deliberately separated from their cans and stuffed into a perspex box outside an antique store in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaps.google.com%2Fmaps%3Fq%3Dboulder%2Bcity%2C%2Bnv%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF-8%26split%3D0%26gl%3Dus%26ei%3D1iqcSeCbNInOsAPa87meAg%26sa%3DX%26oi%3Dgeocode_result%26resnum%3D1%26ct%3Dtitle&amp;ei=1iqcSeCbNInOsAPa87meAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNGC0-bgJ8urmVXYkVYP4CSZrWP80w&amp;sig2=_PMvUcl8yuX1iMD51Glo2Q\">Boulder City, NV<\/a> as part of some inscrutable community charity fundraising scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used to be you&#8217;d tear open a can of beer (or pop or soda or Clamato or whatever) and throw away the aluminum tab. Or maybe you&#8217;d chuck it inside and risk swallowing it, \u00a0lacerating your throat or lungs, and winding up a footnote in the New England Journal of Medicine. But at some point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jetsam","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}