{"id":2185,"date":"2010-08-16T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T21:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2010-08-16T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T21:58:54","slug":"2185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/2185","title":{"rendered":"Hot tea can be dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I was making afternoon tea at work as I usually do, Persian style.\u00c2\u00a0 We have a cute little Russell Hobbs tea tray contraption that has a little warmer for the tea to steep.\u00c2\u00a0 I boiled the tea, set out the cups, and let the tea steep for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v92\/fireflyinthecity\/Blog\/tea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"127\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I picked up the glass carafe and prepared to pour the tea into the cups.<\/p>\n<p>And it exploded in my hand.\u00c2\u00a0 Boiling tea and shards of glass went flying.<\/p>\n<p>I let out an involuntary scream.\u00c2\u00a0 Partially because it was hot, and partially because I was in shock.\u00c2\u00a0 A few of my coworkers came running, bless them.\u00c2\u00a0 I was ok, but it really was not expected.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;ve broken my fair share of kitchen implements and dishes, but the carafe was not touching anything when it spontaneously shattered.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>This time, it was not my fault!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I looked today to find out if I could get a replacement carafe.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out, this item has been discontinued.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe that is for the better&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I was making afternoon tea at work as I usually do, Persian style.\u00c2\u00a0 We have a cute little Russell Hobbs tea tray contraption that has a little warmer for the tea to steep.\u00c2\u00a0 I boiled the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}