{"id":33209,"date":"2015-06-03T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=33209"},"modified":"2022-02-18T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:10:15","slug":"how-an-engineer-improves-a-bucket-mousetrap-for-the-chicken-coop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/how-an-engineer-improves-a-bucket-mousetrap-for-the-chicken-coop\/","title":{"rendered":"How an Engineer Improves a Bucket Mousetrap for the Chicken Coop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like any good engineering, improving my <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bucket mousetrap<\/span> was not complicated or expensive. The most important thing was to be creative. I love being married to an engineer who enjoys problem solving and inventing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to think a tiny bit has rubbed off on me and helped me think outside the box more. This newest version of the bucket mousetrap was a joint brainstorm, but my engineer came up with the key features that made it possible. Watch the video below to see what we did:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bucket-mousetrap-open.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bucket-mousetrap-open-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The better bucket mouse trap opened to see inside.\" class=\"wp-image-33212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bucket-mousetrap-open-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bucket-mousetrap-open-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bucket-mousetrap-open-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bucket-mousetrap-open.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The better bucket mouse trap opened to see inside.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"odysee-iframe\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/A-Better-Bucket-Mousetrap\/b7c7ad881f04e66365a07ba97577620b897e940c?r=B3z7kk7Vm2WfTUV9wBSbBgvcJUC49pHK\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, I&#8217;ll probably go out and dribble some maple syrup on it instead. I kind of like the sound of, <em>&#8220;We killed them with peanut butter and maple syrup.&#8221;<\/em> Don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like any good engineering, improving my bucket mousetrap was not complicated or expensive. The most important thing was to be creative. I love being married to an engineer who enjoys problem solving and inventing. I like to think a tiny bit has rubbed off on me and helped me think outside the box more. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33209"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40259,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33209\/revisions\/40259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}