{"id":152,"date":"2008-08-02T20:26:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T02:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-09-12T22:40:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T04:40:40","slug":"runaway-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/runaway-dishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/rubycoffee.jpg\" target=\"photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/rubycoffee1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" alt=\"RubyCoffee.JPG\" class=\"main_img\" name=\"rubycoffee1.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\" \/><\/a>First you must understand that coffee, when made well, is a great joy and solace to Emily. In fact, a few weeks ago we spent 250 quetzales (about 4 days&#8217; wages) on a French-press coffee maker, a sort of fancy manual coffee maker that doesn&#8217;t use electricity and is about the size of a large mug.<\/p>\n<p>Today I was washing out her beloved French press at our dishwashing station: a grassy spot next to a narrow, fast-flowing stream. Being new, the press is tough to get apart to clean. I pulled and pulled at it, and suddenly it came loose, the top half spinning through the air and landing in the river with a splash.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes! I drew in a sharp breath, my eyes the size of silver dollars. I was frozen for a second, watching the top of the press tumble away in the current at a high rate of speed, thinking of what Emily would say when i told her I&#8217;d lost her pride and joy. In a flash, I was off. The river bends a few meters downstream, and I knew it was possible to intercept the runaway cookware before it was down the mountainside. The overland route took me barrelling through a cornfield, and I emerged at the other side and launched myself into a straddling position over the stream. Scant seconds later, the coffee press came bobbing into view, and I was able to snatch it from the water, saving it and my domestic tranquility in one grab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First you must understand that coffee, when made well, is a great joy and solace to Emily. In fact, a few weeks ago we spent 250 quetzales (about 4 days&#8217; wages) on a French-press coffee maker, a sort of fancy manual coffee maker that doesn&#8217;t use electricity and is about the size of a large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jims-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}