{"id":1603,"date":"2009-04-18T08:39:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:34:48","slug":"a426-cd-opener-keychain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"# a426 :: CD opener keychain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1604\" title=\"041809\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041809-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"041809\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041809-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041809-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041809.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>To someone who <a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?s=knife\">uses knives<\/a> as much as I do, this thing is about as useful as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bullsballs.com%2F&amp;ei=raXsSY3TH5ywtAPp14XgAQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNH2J4Odnt3VxNHjTuqvzR83eYWbiQ\">Truck Balls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You press it against the side of a sealed CD or DVD, depressing a spring-loaded cap to reveal a tiny steel blade that slices open the shrink-wrap.<\/p>\n<p>They were giving them away today at <a href=\"http:\/\/amoebarecords.com\">Amoeba<\/a> for National Record Store Week &#8211; something I didn&#8217;t really discover until I got home to unpack my goodie bag. Had I known, I probably would have politely declined, and let someone else enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can either keep it around, adding to the household clutter, or huck it since the metal makes it unrecyclable.<\/p>\n<p>Do people ever think about the amount of material they&#8217;re pumping into landfills and the atmosphere by manufacturing this kind of object?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To someone who uses knives as much as I do, this thing is about as useful as Truck Balls. You press it against the side of a sealed CD or DVD, depressing a spring-loaded cap to reveal a tiny steel blade that slices open the shrink-wrap. They were giving them away today at Amoeba for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42,37,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-blue","category-ephemera","category-jetsam","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","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=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}