{"id":313,"date":"2004-08-07T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=313"},"modified":"2004-08-07T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-07T16:30:00","slug":"hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many short stories:<\/p>\n<p>We used to have this clothing hanger thing in the back yard.  I&#8217;m sure it was cool once, but now it&#8217;s filled with rust and totally redundant because of the dryer in the house.  I determined to remove it. So, I dug around the thing (metal post, set in concrete), tipped it, and spent about an hour with a big &#8216;ole hammer just wanging away breaking off pieces of the concrete until it was light enough to move.  It was fun and all, but my right forearm is *really* tired now.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re 40 bags of cedar mulch into the process of re-mulching all the flower beds.  I estimate either 10 more or 30 more bags, depending on whether or not all the shrubberies need mulch.<\/p>\n<p>Jen got a Canon D10 digital SLR camera.  She&#8217;s completely geeked out, and is presently shooting pictures of me (while I type) saying &#8220;ooh, the F-stop autonegotiates the arbitrated lens abatement armature (or something like that).  It seems pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was on sale, I tried &#8220;malta:&#8221; a &#8220;non alcoholic malt beverage from India.&#8221;  It tastes <b>exactly<\/b> like wort (which is the malt soup that you make when brewing beer, prior to the addition of the yeast.  As soon as yeast touches it, it&#8217;s beer).  Weird, and strangely wrong.  I don&#8217;t recommend it.  Eat a slice of good dark bread and drink a ginger ale instead for a similar, but far superior experience.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we go to Block Island, where (I&#8217;m told) more than 150 species of bird pass on their annual migration.  W00t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many short stories: We used to have this clothing hanger thing in the back yard. I&#8217;m sure it was cool once, but now it&#8217;s filled with rust and totally redundant because of the dryer in the house. I determined to remove it. So, I dug around the thing (metal post, set in concrete), tipped it, [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}