{"id":150,"date":"2006-02-18T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/02\/beautiful-but-stupid\/"},"modified":"2008-04-21T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T16:12:20","slug":"beautiful-but-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/02\/18\/beautiful-but-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful, but stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/beautiful-but-stupid.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful, but stupid\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The stainless steel corkscrew pictured was my primary corkscrew between about 2001 and 2003 (inclusive). I liked it because it was beautiful, but it did a bad job, because it&#8217;s stupid.<\/p>\n<p>The [Waiters Friend][], two of which are pictured, are a superior device because of the hinged appendage which allows you to lever the cork out, thanks to the miracle of Physics.<\/p>\n<p>[waiters friend]: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corkscrew_%28tool%29<\/p>\n<p>*Beautiful But Stupid* does not have this feature. but that&#8217;s not its only flaw, for its beautiful screw is narrow, and much more prone to slippage than the loose coils of the other corkscrews pictured.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, Beautiful. But incredibly stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stainless steel corkscrew pictured was my primary corkscrew between about 2001 and 2003 (inclusive). I liked it because it was beautiful, but it did a bad job, because it&#8217;s stupid. The [Waiters Friend][], two of which are pictured, are a superior device because of the hinged appendage which allows you to lever the cork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}