{"id":605,"date":"2017-10-30T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2017-10-30T20:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:41:28","slug":"yes-i-am-tired-of-learning-the-hard-way-thanks-for-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/archives\/605","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I AM Tired of Learning the Hard Way (thanks for asking)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cA dishwasher is not a garbage disposal. Scrape off plates before you put them in there, you bonehead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those are wise words from my dad. Wise words that I probably should have listened to years ago. However\u2014much like a toddler who ignores parental warnings, then runs face-first into a wall\u2014I boldly embarked on dishwasher ownership with a risqu\u00e9 attitude and more optimism than brains.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Turns out a dishwasher is not a garbage disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I\u2019ve never thrown chicken bones or apple cores in there\u2014but if the occasional plate had a few peas stuck to it, or there was a bit of rice or onion in a bowl, well, why worry about it?<\/p>\n<p>Why? I\u2019m glad you asked. [I apologize in advance for all the technical terms I\u2019ll be using, here.]<\/p>\n<p>Turns out there\u2019s a big spinning thing inside a dishwasher. It windmills around wildly, spraying water everywhere. This spinning thing does a fantastic job of cleaning dishes\u2026as long as the <em>tiny little holes<\/em> in the spinning thing aren\u2019t clogged with old, mushed-up bits of food.<\/p>\n<p>You probably won\u2019t be surprised to hear that my dishwasher\u2019s spinning thing gradually got clogged. Over an 18 month period, it went from producing squeaky-clean dishes that even a germaphobe would love, to producing dishes so weirdly gritty that most of them had to be <em>hand-washed<\/em> after they were machine-washed.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Google for help. Google told me I was an idiot, then described\u2014in painstaking detail\u2014how to pick all the bits of rotten food out of the tiny holes in the spinning thing. One nauseating hour later, I\u2019d cleaned 18 months-worth of laziness out of my dishwasher. It now\u2014and I\u2019m very excited about this\u2014actually <em>washes dishes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019d just like to end with some words of wisdom from my dad. Ignore him at your peril:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA dishwasher is not a garbage disposal. Scrape off plates before you put them in there, you bonehead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA dishwasher is not a garbage disposal. Scrape off plates before you put them in there, you bonehead.\u201d Those are wise words from my dad. Wise words that I probably should have listened to years ago. However\u2014much like a toddler who ignores parental warnings, then runs face-first into a wall\u2014I boldly embarked on dishwasher ownership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-bits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}