{"id":203,"date":"2008-08-26T16:24:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T21:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-09-24T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:27:07","slug":"the-famous-exploded-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"The famous exploded knife"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are prone to having problems with exploding meat<\/a>, you are likely to develop a close relationship with a knifemaker who can repair the aftereffects. <\/p>\n

Let me back up a step. I have never exploded meat. Other things maybe, but we won’t talk about that right now. Regular readers might remember me mentioning<\/a> a band called The Flash Girls<\/a> that I’m fond of. Through my hunt for their albums, I encountered the blog of one of the members, the Fabulous Lorraine, who not only lives up to her name, but also writes an entertaining blog<\/a>. (I’m also exceedingly fond of her boss<\/a>, but that isn’t why I started reading her blog, though it is why I read his<\/a>. Not that all author blogs are worth reading, but anyway.) <\/p>\n

This is another “Internet is weird” post, can you tell?<\/p>\n

Anyway, not too long after Lorraine posted the story of the exploding meat<\/a>. (She seems a bit prone to this sort of adventure, I’m afraid.) After I quit laughing, I read the tale to Nick, who promptly suggested that he could fix the knife. He does that sort of thing<\/a>, you know. Lorraine was interested, and eventually this arrived in the mail.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

I still think the delay was to ensure that I wasn’t some kind of very odd Internet stalker, but Lorraine assures me that her stalker-radar is very good, and that she was just busy. (Drat! I can’t even successfully pose as a stalker on the Internet, where anyone can claim to be anything!)<\/p>\n

Unpacked, the (not really that sharp) knife shows definite signs of having exploded, or at least having cut into an electrical cord.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The neatest part: the explosion vaporized the copper electrical wire and redeposited it in the blasted-out bits of the knife.<\/p>\n

\"Edge<\/p>\n

Nick will be starting repairs shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are prone to having problems with exploding meat, you are likely to develop a close relationship with a knifemaker who can repair the aftereffects. Let me back up a step. I have never exploded meat. Other things maybe, but we won’t talk about that right now. Regular readers might remember me mentioning a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaboom","category-people-doing-cool-things","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}