{"id":1324,"date":"2010-07-02T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2010-07-02T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T17:29:09","slug":"snack-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2010\/07\/02\/snack-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Snack Snake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/galleries\/snack_snake\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/snackSnake.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"snackSnake\" width=\"250\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1325\" \/><\/a> I&#8217;ve long thought that the phrase &#8220;kid in a candy store&#8221; should really be &#8220;kid in a hardware store.&#8221;  Finn &#038; I have enjoyed untold hours cruising the aisles of the nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osh.com\">OSH<\/a>, futzing with flanges, banging on PVC &#8220;drums,&#8221; marveling at weed whackers, and more.<\/p>\n<p>This past Sunday he somehow <del datetime=\"2010-07-01T17:56:11+00:00\">conned<\/del> talked me into buying a little clog-busting &#8220;drain snake&#8221;&#8211;just a peg and a handle on the ends of a flexible metal rod.  He was enthralled all day with it, at one point fashioning it into The World&#8217;s Least Efficient Utensil.  Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/galleries\/snack_snake\/\">handful of images<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/galleries\/snack_snake_html\/\">HTML<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>[Tip o&#8217; the hat to our friend Maria, lover of basic home improvement as well as the culinary arts.  Clearly Finn&#8217;s a man cut from the same cloth.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long thought that the phrase &#8220;kid in a candy store&#8221; should really be &#8220;kid in a hardware store.&#8221; Finn &#038; I have enjoyed untold hours cruising the aisles of the nearby OSH, futzing with flanges, banging on PVC &#8220;drums,&#8221; marveling at weed whackers, and more. This past Sunday he somehow conned talked me into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}