{"id":12765,"date":"2022-10-29T21:54:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T04:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2022-10-29T21:54:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T04:54:16","slug":"what-i-learned-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12765","title":{"rendered":"What I learned this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the electricity flicks off and back on while the oven is on, the heat does not return. It has to be started again.  I have an older oven, so this makes sense. I just didn&#8217;t think about it until a found a barely warm roast when I expected to find a fully cooked and tender meal.<br \/>\nI restarted the oven, but didn&#8217;t want to wait 2 hours for supper. I had to adjust.<br \/>\nThe house heater\/AC unit maintains the settings and auto-starts when the power comes back. It looses the time setting. If modern electric stoves do this, I don&#8217;t know. A short web search did not find anything. <\/p>\n<p>Friends from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Flying-Red-Horse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12764\" \/> (Marquette) have been on the road and I met them in EBRG for lunch. We dined at the Red Horse Diner. Recall the flying red horse of the Mobil Gas Stations.<br \/>\nAnne and  Fred came to the University of Iowa and lived near us when we had a house in North Liberty.<br \/>\nI think Fred arrived at the same time Nancy came, after we were married. I had been there 2 years. They had a young Black Lab and we had a Brittany puppy. We spent a lot of time together for two years, have kept in touch and been able to visit because they come west to visit relatives and friends.<br \/>\nThe Diner has a 1950&#8217;s car theme with lots of signs. The food is standard American with large servings. Anyway, It was good to see them and catch up on their doings. <\/p>\n<p>Other than their visit, the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/OCT-1-snow-at-stevens-pass-26th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12763\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/OCT-1-snow-at-stevens-pass-26th.jpg 392w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/OCT-1-snow-at-stevens-pass-26th-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 85vw, 392px\" \/> week did not have other exciting events. The weather stayed nice, with cold mornings. Snow is still only in the mountains. This image is from 50 miles north and a bit west of me. The elevation is 4,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<br \/>\nKeeping Track on the Naneum Fan<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the electricity flicks off and back on while the oven is on, the heat does not return. It has to be started again. I have an older oven, so this makes sense. I just didn&#8217;t think about it until a found a barely warm roast when I expected to find a fully cooked and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What I learned this week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-3jT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12766,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions\/12766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}