{"id":45,"date":"2006-12-09T12:06:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T17:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2006\/12\/09\/ow\/"},"modified":"2006-12-09T12:06:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T17:06:57","slug":"ow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"OW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to music this morning using earbuds plugged in to my laptop (which in turn was plugged into a power outlet) and occasionally as I&#8217;d shift in my seat I&#8217;d get a strange crackle sound.  I kept jiggling the cord, trying to find a short, but none was becoming obvious.  Still, every time I fidgeted I&#8217;d get that crackle-pop again.<\/p>\n<p>I finally realized what it was when I warmed up enough to take off my fleece jacket.  As I pulled it off I felt the familiar tug of static cling between my jacket and my shirt, and then immediately got static electricity shock in both ears simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Let this be some sort of strange lesson to you.  May you learn from my experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to music this morning using earbuds plugged in to my laptop (which in turn was plugged into a power outlet) and occasionally as I&#8217;d shift in my seat I&#8217;d get a strange crackle sound. I kept jiggling the cord, trying to find a short, but none was becoming obvious. Still, every time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}