{"id":1069,"date":"2008-12-12T19:48:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T03:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2009-09-25T22:55:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T06:55:29","slug":"clumsy-oafishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Clumsy Oafishness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ouch!  I accidentally knocked one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluetooth.com\/bluetooth\/\">Bluetooth<\/a> cellphone head-sets into a sink as I was running water into it.<\/p> <p>I could not readily disassemble the head-set or otherwise remove its battery, but I have put it into a finger-bowl filled with rice, as this was the best desiccant that I had in quantity.  I guess that I'll leave it in there for at least a day.<\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: bolder ; font-variant: small-caps ;\">Up-Date<\/span> (2008:12\/18)<span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">:<\/span> In the event, I left the head-set in the rice for a little more than three days.  It seems to be working satisfactorily, except that the connection to the charger seems a bit flaky, and I believe that that problem isn't significantly related to the fall into the sink.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ouch! I accidentally knocked one of my Bluetooth cellphone head-sets into a sink as I was running water into it. I could not readily disassemble the head-set or otherwise remove its battery, but I have put it into a finger-bowl filled with rice, as this was the best desiccant that I had in quantity. I [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[461,462,463,464],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-cellphone","tag-desiccant","tag-desiccation","tag-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}