{"id":726,"date":"2010-06-14T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2010-06-14T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:17:54","slug":"thinking-must-be-too-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Thinking must be too hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening, Marion asked me to replace the battery in one of her smoke detectors &#8230; it had started giving her the &#8220;low battery&#8221; beep, and she couldn&#8217;t manage it herself.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that I couldn&#8217;t do it, either, without the help of serious tools. A few months ago, she had her house painted. When they painted the ceiling, the workers apparently detached the removable part of the detector, painted the ceiling <em>and the mount<\/em>, and then reattached the main part of the detector <em>without letting the paint dry<\/em>. Really, they should have not painted the mount, but they did.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that happened was that I broke off the cover of the smoke detector while trying to unscrew it from the mount. I ended up using a sharp chisel to slice away the various parts of the locking mechanism, and now I have two further tasks &#8211; see if the painters did the same thing with her other smoke detectors, and then buy and install replacements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening, Marion asked me to replace the battery in one of her smoke detectors &#8230; it had started giving her the &#8220;low battery&#8221; beep, and she couldn&#8217;t manage it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}