{"id":17,"date":"2002-06-03T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-03T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.krisrzepkowski.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-10-08T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T02:33:23","slug":"strangely-beautiful-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/strangely-beautiful-inferno.html","title":{"rendered":"Strangely Beautiful Inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--77296358-->I don&#8217;t get to the blog too much&#8230;when I do, it&#8217;s quality. Memorial Day was a week ago, and I still can&#8217;t believe how strange the final hour of it was. We put together our new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harborfreight.com\/cpi\/ctaf\/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=44823\" target=\"top\">firepit<\/a> and stacked it high with the usual kindling and logs, then lit &#8216;er up on our back porch. Soon the fire was crackling. The air was full of that campfire smell, and Trish and I were chatting about the weekend.  We put the cover on thinking that it would be better for the house if it weren&#8217;t quite so hot. After about a minute I start to hear sizzling&#8230;. sizzling&#8230;. sizzzleFOOM! All of the sudden the outside of the cover spontaneously combusted!<\/p>\n<p>I hate to admit it, but I froze. I stood there thinking, &#8220;Wow, that&#8217;s a really big fire.&#8221; Me, the Boy Scout who is supposed to Be Prepared. My wife, the practical one who didn&#8217;t want the house to catch fire went for the fire extinguisher. By the way, fire extinguishers work! We put the cover out, then had a hearty chuckle as we thought of the friends who declined to come over that night. They&#8217;ll have to wait for another time to come &#8220;wind down the weekend with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get to the blog too much&#8230;when I do, it&#8217;s quality. Memorial Day was a week ago, and I still can&#8217;t believe how strange the final hour of it was. We put together our new firepit and stacked it high with the usual kindling and logs, then lit &#8216;er up on our back porch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}