{"id":21,"date":"2007-07-16T23:44:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T03:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timeoff.org\/wp-rp\/?p=21"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:49:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:49:55","slug":"torch-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2007\/07\/16\/torch-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Torch Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spent some time throwing torches this evening. Scratch that. I mean <em>not quite<\/em> throwing torches. Or maybe the throwing was going okay, but the <em>catching<\/em> failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, I&#8217;ve got plenty of excuses. Want to hear some? I&#8217;m getting over a cold. I just finished dinner. I&#8217;ve been slacking on my practice. My left wrist is a little sore. My mind was preoccupied with other stuff. That enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doubles I started with were acceptable, I guess, but as dusk went to dark I couldn&#8217;t even get simple cascades to flow. Drop after drop after drop. I was glad the surface was asphalt &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t burn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s a bright side to everything. Despite a performance failure I didn&#8217;t set fire to myself or anything else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time throwing torches this evening. Scratch that. I mean not quite throwing torches. Or maybe the throwing was going okay, but the catching failed. Oh, I&#8217;ve got plenty of excuses. Want to hear some? I&#8217;m getting over a cold. I just finished dinner. I&#8217;ve been slacking on my practice. My left wrist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2007\/07\/16\/torch-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Torch Failure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[63,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}