{"id":561,"date":"2008-01-02T22:27:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T03:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=561"},"modified":"2024-01-28T20:56:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T19:56:21","slug":"why-i-have-a-screwdriver-on-my-desk-or-who-designs-these-things-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/why-i-have-a-screwdriver-on-my-desk-or-who-designs-these-things-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I have a screwdriver on my desk, or, Who designs these things, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Baby_monitor.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOur baby monitor runs on batteries.<br \/>\nThe batteries last about a week.<br \/>\nThe batteries have to be taken out for recharging, because the base station provides electricity but does not recharge batteries.<br \/>\nAnd the battery compartment closes with a SCREW.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTruly, sometimes I think some corporations are simply evil. Someone somewhere is rubbing their hands and thinking with glee of all the time that parents will spend screwing and unscrewing that darn thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our baby monitor runs on batteries. The batteries last about a week. The batteries have to be taken out for recharging, because the base station provides electricity but does not recharge batteries. And the battery compartment closes with a SCREW. Truly, sometimes I think some corporations are simply evil. Someone somewhere is rubbing their hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else","category-life_with_kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18416,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/18416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}