{"id":10170,"date":"2006-08-18T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T00:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/08\/18\/for-those-with-less-technically-advanced-households.html"},"modified":"2006-08-18T17:22:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T00:22:45","slug":"for_those_with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/for_those_with.html","title":{"rendered":"For those with less technically advanced households &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tap-Icer\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/tap_icer.jpg\" width=\"418\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, my in-laws have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/consumer\/youtube\/tap-icer-demo-195209.php\" target=\"_blank\">one of these<\/a>.  It&#8217;s actually a great way to make crushed ice for cocktails &#8212; especially (cough) if your expensive, high-end wall-embedded refrigerator-freezer (cough) doesn&#8217;t do crushed ice (cough cough) like your daughter and son-in-law&#8217;s mid-range GE fridge does (cough cough cough).<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, my in-laws have one of these. It&#8217;s actually a great way to make crushed ice for cocktails &#8212; especially (cough) if your expensive, high-end wall-embedded refrigerator-freezer (cough) doesn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24885,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/because-who-cares-about-antibiotic-resistance-cough-cough-cough.html","url_meta":{"origin":10170,"position":0},"title":"Because who cares about antibiotic resistance (cough cough cough)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Dec-11 9:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"The FDA has been signalling since the late 70s it was going to rescind its ruling that it's safe for agricultural feed makers to include penicillin and tetracycline in feed, since it's been obvious for at least that long that it's only adding to the number of bugs out there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29802,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/whooping-cough-epidemic-is-the-worst-in-70-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":10170,"position":1},"title":"Whooping cough epidemic is the worst in 70 years","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Aug-12 1:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks, anti-vaxxers. 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