{"id":170,"date":"2008-06-03T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobthewes.com\/keencomic\/?p=170"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:13:10","slug":"028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"#28 &#8211; The Megarocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dosclassics.com\/keen\/of\/1\">Keencyclopedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket was constructed from objects around the house that you have &#8220;modified&#8221; into starship parts<!--more-->:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joystick (from your brother&#8217;s video game) Manual Flight Control.<\/li>\n<li>Car Battery (from your mom&#8217;s car) Electrical Systems Power.<\/li>\n<li>Vacuum Cleaner (from the kitchen, heavily modified) Ion Propulsion Unit (with carpet height adjustment).<\/li>\n<li>Everclear (from your dad&#8217;s liquor cabinet) Fuel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;KeenBits&#8221; is an obscure reference to an old kids&#8217; science show that aired on Saturday mornings back in the &#8217;80&#8217;s &#8212; but only around the Detroit, MI area &#8212; called &#8220;KidBits&#8221;.. It was something like &#8220;Bill Nye the Science Guy&#8221; only with less personality and much less budget. When trying to come up with a name for this Keen segment, that show popped into my head&#8230; So that&#8217;s where I got the title from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Keencyclopedia: The Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket was constructed from objects around the house that you have &#8220;modified&#8221; into starship parts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keencomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}