{"id":300,"date":"2000-01-02T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2000-01-02T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2020-08-18T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:48:09","slug":"turn-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2000\/01\/02\/turn-of-the-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn of the Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I set our toaster oven on fire. Pretty exciting at the time. Pine nuts are very flamable if you don&#8217;t keep your eye on them. I knew that if I opened the little glass door, the flames would woosh out as they got oxygen, so I ran to the back sliding door, opened it, unplugged the unit and carried it (hot and dribbling smoke) gingerly outside. Then I (even more gingerly) opened the door with a stick, jumped back (the flames *did* whoosh out) and dumped a bucket of water over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was lucky that the bucket was there, but we have a leaky gutter and I put the bucket under the leak for just such an emergency. Handy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa tried cleaning the toaster oven, but it was a thankless job, as we don&#8217;t even like the oven much. It turned out to be not really the kind of oven we would have bought except that we were in a hurry for kitchen appliances at the time. So we&#8217;re retiring it, and we&#8217;ll find a home for it somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We now have a new toaster oven, and I have decided to use the &#8220;toast&#8221; setting for pine nuts from now on. (It has a timer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you all had a fantastic time watching the odometer roll over to a new century. <strong>Here&#8217;s to seeing the second millennium out for real next year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set our toaster oven on fire. Pretty exciting at the time. Pine nuts are very flamable if you don&#8217;t keep your eye on them. I knew that if I opened the little glass door, the flames would woosh out as they got oxygen, so I ran to the back sliding door, opened it, unplugged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}