{"id":18,"date":"2011-10-20T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogengine\/blog3\/post\/The-daily-grind"},"modified":"2011-10-20T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T00:27:00","slug":"the-daily-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/the-daily-grind\/","title":{"rendered":"The daily grind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently a screw came loose in our 1930&#8217;s retro-style&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/coffeegeek.com\/reviews\/grinders\/kitchenaidretro\/Attila\">burr coffee grinder<\/a> recently, and has been helping out the process of turning beans into dusty espresso. Yesterday it decided to jam itself in a place it wasn&#8217;t supposed to be and, in turn, was chewed up like gum.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the grinder has been making these, well, grinding noises instead of the regular industrious hum. I dismantled it and actually found a replacement screw in my box of machine screws (various), carefully salvaged over the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>However, I think the mechanism is irrepairably damaged, because I really don&#8217;t like the noises it makes and it does not produce a consistent grind any more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been very reliable up until now, and I would just buy another without question, except that it seems that Kitchenaid don&#8217;t make it any more. Drat!<\/p>\n<p>So we have a few days before we run out of ground coffee to make a decision and find a replacement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently a screw came loose in our 1930&#8217;s retro-style&nbsp;&nbsp;burr coffee grinder recently, and has been helping out the process of turning beans into dusty espresso. Yesterday it decided to jam itself in a place it wasn&#8217;t supposed to be and, in turn, was chewed up like gum. Since then, the grinder has been making these, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}