{"id":44606,"date":"2022-12-17T02:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T02:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=44606"},"modified":"2022-12-17T02:09:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T02:09:04","slug":"appliances-toaster-dials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/appliances-toaster-dials\/","title":{"rendered":"Appliances: toaster dials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about toasters: the tutor checks a claim.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe other day someone told me that the dial on a toaster means minutes: for instance, setting it to 3 means it will toast for 3 minutes. &#8220;As if,&#8221; I said. My wife agrees: to our minds, the numbers on the dial are just relative levels of toasting.<\/p>\n<p>\nYet, the person who claimed the numbers mean minutes was adamant, so I put in some bread at 2 and a half, then timed it. It popped at 2min 15sec. &#8220;The toaster is twenty years old,&#8221; they claimed (which it is). &#8220;Obviously, new, it would have popped at 2min 30sec.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You be the judge.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about toasters: the tutor checks a claim. The other day someone told me that the dial on a toaster means minutes: for instance, setting it to 3 means it will toast for 3 minutes. &#8220;As if,&#8221; I said. My &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/appliances-toaster-dials\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appliances: toaster dials<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3007],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appliances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44611,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606\/revisions\/44611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}