{"id":5665,"date":"2012-07-10T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2012-07-10T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T20:24:39","slug":"boys-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/boys-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys &#038; Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Mark &amp; I had the &#8220;washer&#8217;s unbalanced&#8221; argument again. When I hear it thudding in the basement, I always run down and rearrange the clothes in the washer tub to get it spinning straight again, but he contends that it should be left alone, and will right itself. &#8220;If it&#8217;s really outta whack, the buzzer will go off and it&#8217;ll stop,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Yea, right,&#8221; I says.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, he also had to tack on, &#8220;You don&#8217;t know anything about mechanics, Sweetie&#8221;, and I got mad and couldn&#8217;t just let it drop. Which made things even more unsatisfying for me, because he basically allowed as how I might know something about the washer I&#8217;ve been using for 25 years, but was just tired of me claiming expertise about things of which I know nothing &#8230; Real show stopper there &#8211; not at all how I think of myself. Who does he think he&#8217;s been living with?<\/p>\n<p>Shoulda let him break the f**ing washer, anyways, so&#8217;s I can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appliancist.com\/frigidaire-affinity-washer-dryer.JPG\">get one like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kitchenaid Affinity Washer-Dryer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appliancist.com\/frigidaire-affinity-washer-dryer.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"414\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kitchenaid Affinity Washer-Dryer &#8211; like my brother has<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Mark &amp; I had the &#8220;washer&#8217;s unbalanced&#8221; argument again. When I hear it thudding in the basement, I always run down and rearrange the clothes in the washer tub to get it spinning straight again, but he contends that it should be left alone, and will right itself. &#8220;If it&#8217;s really outta whack, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-appliances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}