{"id":15675,"date":"2002-08-14T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-14T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/14\/steady-ed-headrick-the-the-inventor-that\/"},"modified":"2002-08-14T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-14T10:54:00","slug":"steady-ed-headrick-the-the-inventor-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/14\/steady-ed-headrick-the-the-inventor-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Steady&rdquo; Ed Headrick, the <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;u=\/nm\/20020814\/people_nm\/life_frisbee_dc_1&amp;e=2\" target=\"_blank\">the inventor that perfected Frisbee flight, died at the age of 78<\/a>.  While a somewhat sad story for a Frisbee afficianado like myself, the story turns a little unusual.  Apparently his &ldquo;ashes will be molded into a limited number of &lsquo;memorial flying discs&rsquo; which will be distributed to family and friends, and sold to help fund a future Frisbee\/disc golf history and memorabilia museum.&rdquo;  I guess that&rsquo;s an, um, interesting way to immortalize  yourself, but I just find the thought a little morbid for some reason.  Anyway, I also found a nice page with the <a href=\"http:\/\/inventors.about.com\/library\/weekly\/aa980218.htm\" target=\"_blank\">history of the Frisbee<\/a>, including some original patent drawings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85343843?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Steady&rdquo; Ed Headrick, the the inventor that perfected Frisbee flight, died at the age of 78. While a somewhat sad story for a Frisbee afficianado like myself, the story turns a little unusual. Apparently his &ldquo;ashes will be molded into a limited number of &lsquo;memorial flying discs&rsquo; which will be distributed to family and friends, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/14\/steady-ed-headrick-the-the-inventor-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}