{"id":261,"date":"2020-02-03T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:53:07","slug":"delightful-things-monday-feb-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/delightful-things-monday-feb-2-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Delightful things, Monday, Feb. 2, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the spirit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/692\/the-show-of-delights\">this morning&#8217;s This American Life<\/a>, some things that are delightful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Apparently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-norfolk-51301815\">big cats are fans of perfume<\/a>, and Calvin Klein&#8217;s Obsession is particularly popular.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2014\/10\/breadmaking-101-the-science-of-baking-bread-and-how-to-do-it-righ.html\">Oven spring<\/a>, the magical phenomenon whereby a ball of flour and salt and water and yeast begins to resemble bread.  I do not think I will ever pull a loaf of bread out of the oven without feeling vaguely like an alchemist.<\/li><li>The tactile sensation of folding laundry while it is still warm.<\/li><li>Watching snow fall when one does not have to go out into it.<\/li><li>The teeny-tiny meow of small kittens.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of this morning&#8217;s This American Life, some things that are delightful: Apparently, big cats are fans of perfume, and Calvin Klein&#8217;s Obsession is particularly popular. Oven spring, the magical phenomenon whereby a ball of flour and salt and water and yeast begins to resemble bread. I do not think I will ever &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/delightful-things-monday-feb-2-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Delightful things, Monday, Feb. 2, 2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}