{"id":43,"date":"2004-03-03T23:09:57","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T07:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=43"},"modified":"2004-03-03T23:09:57","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T07:09:57","slug":"it-was-on-fire-when-i-laid-down-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"It was on fire when I laid down on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab caught fire today. That was&#8230;interesting. Some few hundred people wandering about the parking lot, chatting idly, blinking in the sunlight. More fire trucks than I knew Medford had.<\/p>\n<p>From my neck of the lab, it&#8217;s amazing how really not-loud the fire alarm is. I thought someone had tripped some kind of theft alarm \/ overcurrent protection \/ smurf detector in the back, and went back there to see what was going on. It wasn&#8217;t &#8217;til I saw \/ smelt the billowing smoke that it dawned on me that I should probably be headed the other direction. (Actually, it was already out by then, but I guess there is some rule about staying in a building with the fire alarm going..)<\/p>\n<p>\nQOTD: &#8220;The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.&#8221; &#8211; Stanley Kubrick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab caught fire today. That was&#8230;interesting. Some few hundred people wandering about the parking lot, chatting idly, blinking in the sunlight. More fire trucks than I knew Medford had. From my neck of the lab, it&#8217;s amazing how really not-loud the fire alarm is. I thought someone had tripped some kind of theft alarm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}