{"id":466,"date":"2009-08-29T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T11:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2009-08-29T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T11:50:05","slug":"the-easier-it-is-to-stop-up-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/29\/the-easier-it-is-to-stop-up-the-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;the easier it is to stop up the drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My coffee maker is on the fritz again.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t seem to get more than a few  years out of even the most expensive model.\u00a0 Clearly I must be doing something  wrong.\u00a0 Not everyone buys a new coffee maker every three years or less.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shop.melitta.com\/images\/p743.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"306\" align=\"right\" \/> had the no-frills version (lasted the longest &#8211; five years before the burner  broke), a fancy version that brewed into a thermal carafe (it could be counted  on to overflow at an inconvenient time), expensive models with timers and all  sorts of bells and whistles.<\/p>\n<p>And then I have this cup-top brewer.\u00a0 I think I paid a couple of bucks for it.\u00a0 I know it was less than three, anyway.\u00a0 It works Every. Single. Time.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing to break.\u00a0 If I want to make a cup of coffee for a friend who doesn&#8217;t prefer that her coffee be strong enough in which to stand a spoon, why, I can make her a cup her way.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t take any longer to make a cup of coffee than a cup of tea, it&#8217;s fresh each time you make it and you&#8217;re not mindlessly drinking too much coffee because there&#8217;s a full pot around.\u00a0 (Goddess of Java, I may be, but I have a human liver that shouldn&#8217;t be asked to absorb too many drugs too often).<\/p>\n<p>I am so disgusted with coffee makers, I swear I think I am going to buy the ten cup version (which is still cheaper than almost any automatic coffee maker on the market) for those rare occasions when I need ten cups of coffee all at once. \u00a0 For parties, I can pour it in my thermal pump pot and be done with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My coffee maker is on the fritz again.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t seem to get more than a few years out of even the most expensive model.\u00a0 Clearly I must be doing something wrong.\u00a0 Not everyone buys a new coffee maker every three years or less.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had the no-frills version (lasted the longest &#8211; five years &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/29\/the-easier-it-is-to-stop-up-the-drain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8230;the easier it is to stop up the drain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}