{"id":153,"date":"2006-04-14T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T18:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/04\/14\/153\/"},"modified":"2006-04-14T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T18:34:12","slug":"153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/04\/14\/153\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of refurbished electronics and appliances, despite the fact that they are maybe the worst things to get refurbished (rapid depreciation, complicated things that if they broke once, etc).  I also display a startling brand loyalty to KitchenAid.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elise.com\/recipes\/archives\/001842shopping_alert_kitchenaid_blender.php\" title=\"Someday I might cook one of these!\">Simply Recipes<\/a>, I found a refurbished, fairly high-end KitchenAid blender on Amazon for less than half price, with free shipping.  You can guess the result.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday everybody brought stuff to try in smoothies, and Wednesday Maria and I experimented with chocolate pseudomalts and strawberry-orange slushies.  Last night I found it difficult to establish a decent texture for a real milkshake; Maria found recommendations online that say if you&#8217;re using skim milk (we do), stick it in the freezer for ten minutes first.  I firmly intend to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I&#8217;ve enabled myself to drink ice cream.  If I were a betting man, and I were in a boxing match against getting fat?  I would put my money on getting fat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of refurbished electronics and appliances, despite the fact that they are maybe the worst things to get refurbished (rapid depreciation, complicated things that if they broke once, etc). I also display a startling brand loyalty to KitchenAid. Thanks to Simply Recipes, I found a refurbished, fairly high-end KitchenAid blender on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-maria","category-x-night-ballers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}