{"id":1872,"date":"2008-04-09T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/teeny-tiny-led-lantern\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T07:15:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T15:15:15","slug":"teeny-tiny-led-lantern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/teeny-tiny-led-lantern\/","title":{"rendered":"Teeny tiny LED lantern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2401209046\/\" title=\"LED Micro Lantern by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3241\/2401209046_375844d301_m.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" alt=\"LED Micro Lantern\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a> A PR rep for Coughlan&#8217;s, the Canadian company that makes a bunch of little camping accessories you always see at the outdoor stores, has been trying to get me to post something about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coghlans.com\/catalogue\/productList.php?catID=12\">this gadget from their new spring lineup<\/a>: an LED lantern. It works on the same principle as those little LED keyring spotlights, but instead of sending a spot of light, it broadcasts a sphere of it, supposedly about six feet wide. Weighs about an ounce, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/products?q=Coghlan's+micro+lantern\">costs under $10 bucks<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Might be handy for reading, cooking after dark, attracting your favorite stinging insects.  <\/p>\n<p>(Coughlin&#8217;s has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coghlans.com\/catalogue\/index.php\">remarkable product catalog<\/a>, it&#8217;s like an object lesson in the potential of niche manufacturing and marketing.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PR rep for Coughlan&#8217;s, the Canadian company that makes a bunch of little camping accessories you always see at the outdoor stores, has been trying to get me to post something about this gadget from their new spring lineup:&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/teeny-tiny-led-lantern\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}