{"id":81,"date":"2013-08-29T02:52:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/?p=81"},"modified":"2013-08-29T02:52:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T02:52:42","slug":"burnt-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Burnt Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, my second daily pot of coffee&#8230; I was brewing with the radio on.<br \/>\nDistracted. Boiled over.<br \/>\nBurnt coffee smell of my father melting the percolator.. but without burnt bakelite handle.<br \/>\nI opened the front door&#8230; 10 years old. Dad at work. It stunk but was not smoke so I went in.<br \/>\nAluminum slag. Time for a new coffee pot.<br \/>\nTurned the burner off.<br \/>\nSmart kid.<br \/>\nNother day.<br \/>\nCame home from school.<br \/>\nOpened front door. Smelled smoke.<br \/>\nWent next door to Sheri&#8217;s house.<br \/>\n&#8220;Mrs Simons, could I use your phone? &#8221;<br \/>\nDialed zero. &#8220;Operator give me the fire department.&#8221;<br \/>\nThey came, no smoke.<br \/>\n&#8220;So, you decided to see the fire trucks little boy?&#8221;<br \/>\nMother, Fern Katz\u00a0, pulls up next to the fire truck.<br \/>\n&#8220;My son said there was smoke, so there was. Go find it.&#8221;<br \/>\nMom gets extra credit and gold star.<br \/>\nLint in the dryer caught fire and went out.<br \/>\nNo one asked me how much smoke.<br \/>\nThe coffee is good. Time to clean the stove top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my second daily pot of coffee&#8230; I was brewing with the radio on. Distracted. Boiled over. Burnt coffee smell of my father melting the percolator.. but without burnt bakelite handle. I opened the front door&#8230; 10 years old. Dad at work. It stunk but was not smoke so I went in. Aluminum slag. Time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-foodnotthai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louiskatz.net\/wpt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}