{"id":4424,"date":"2010-07-15T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2010-07-13T18:54:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T02:54:24","slug":"ballard-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2010\/07\/15\/ballard-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Ballard's obsession with Star Trek is a pretty new thing.\">\n<p>Cote sticks her head into the bathroom, towel-turbanned.  &#8220;Why&#8217;d you turn off the radio?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You needed the hair dryer,&#8221; Ballard says.  &#8220;You can&#8217;t fit both on the outlet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turn one upside-down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t do that&#8211;&#8221; he starts.<\/p>\n<p>Cote flips the hair dryer&#8217;s plug over, then reinserts the radio.  NPR resumes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8211;you might reverse the polarity and&#8211;&#8221; Ballard falters.<\/p>\n<p>Cote picks up the hair dryer and pokes the trigger.  It works fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8211;scramble the deflector shields,&#8221; Ballard mutters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can you not know what a polarized plug looks like?  You&#8217;re an engineer!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A <i>software<\/i> engineer,&#8221; says Ballard, employing history&#8217;s weakest defense.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cote sticks her head into the bathroom, towel-turbanned. &#8220;Why&#8217;d you turn off the radio?&#8221; &#8220;You needed the hair dryer,&#8221; Ballard says. &#8220;You can&#8217;t fit both on the outlet.&#8221; &#8220;Turn one upside-down.&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t do that&#8211;&#8221; he starts. Cote flips the hair dryer&#8217;s plug over, then reinserts the radio. NPR resumes. &#8220;&#8211;you might reverse the polarity and&#8211;&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[503,502],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ballard","tag-cote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}