{"id":11513,"date":"2021-07-09T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11513"},"modified":"2021-07-20T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T22:53:08","slug":"the-eighth-greatest-invention-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/09\/the-eighth-greatest-invention-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eighth Greatest Invention Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/daily-shouts\/the-myth-of-the-cast-iron-pan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Myth of the Cast-Iron Pan<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/jiji-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jiji Lee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/laura-mishkin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Laura Mishkin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/60df862860fd1fcbc12ffe57\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/1-Mishkin.jpg\" alt=\"Ancient Grecians reaching in a cardboard box labeled fragile.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cast-iron pan is forged in the flames of a volcano, by the mighty god Hephaestus. When the pan is the color of obsidian, and its weight equals that of a mountain, it is carefully placed in a cardboard box, and is ready for shipping and handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/daily-shouts\/the-myth-of-the-cast-iron-pan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The New Yorker<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New Yorker The Myth of the Cast-Iron Pan By\u00a0Jiji Lee\u00a0and\u00a0Laura Mishkin Birth A cast-iron pan is forged in the flames of a volcano, by the mighty god Hephaestus. When the pan is the color of obsidian, and its weight equals that of a mountain, it is carefully placed in a cardboard box, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}