{"id":489,"date":"2009-04-18T17:50:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T08:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/shed\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-04-18T17:50:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T08:20:13","slug":"henry-hokes-guide-to-the-misguided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/18\/henry-hokes-guide-to-the-misguided\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Hoke\u2019s Guide to the Misguided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Henry Hoke\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/henrythumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"128\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Henry Hoke\u2019s Guide to the Misguided<\/em> is the story of an unsung inventive genius whose work could have revolutionised the modern world. From an isolated workshop in a distant windswept town came a constant stream of dazzling leaps of mechanical imagination, culminating in the extraordinary Random Excuse Generator. The long weight, the wooden magnet, the glass hammer, dehydrated water pills \u2013 the man\u2019s mind was truly a fountain of innovation. Unaccountably, all these brilliant tools have now all but disappeared. In this groundbreaking new book, deep shed researcher Mark Thomson uncovers the true story behind our greatest inventor \u2013 or why, as Henry Hoke himself was known to say: \u2018There\u2019s no tool like an old tool.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/shed\/online-store\/\">View the store here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Hoke\u2019s Guide to the Misguided is the story of an unsung inventive genius whose work could have revolutionised the modern world. From an isolated workshop in a distant windswept town came a constant stream of dazzling leaps of mechanical imagination, culminating in the extraordinary Random Excuse Generator. The long weight, the wooden magnet, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/18\/henry-hokes-guide-to-the-misguided\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Henry Hoke\u2019s Guide to the Misguided&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}