{"id":136,"date":"2004-05-14T08:16:41","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/staticman-and-lightbulbwoman\/"},"modified":"2004-05-14T08:16:41","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T15:16:41","slug":"staticman-and-lightbulbwoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/staticman-and-lightbulbwoman\/","title":{"rendered":"StaticMan and LightbulbWoman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne and I have recently discovered that we&#8217;ve developed supernatural powers.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I have the amazing ability to generate vast amount of static electricity. I&#8217;m able to zap people and occasionally make computers reboot just by touching them. <\/p>\n<p>Like all superpowers, its power is also a curse. I&#8217;ve become afraid to close car doors because I often shock myself. Someday I fear I might just <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.splunk.co.uk\/shc.htm\">spontaneously combust<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>Anne now has the amazing ability to blow lightbulbs just by turning them on. She flips the switch and poof! the bulb blows. This has happened a lot recently. Her curse is that she has to go change all these lightbulbs.<\/p>\n<p>Like all people with supernatural powers, we&#8217;re planning on using our powers to fight crime in our spare time. All we have to do is find a criminal and lure him into a room. Then Anne will blow the lights, disorienting the criminal, while I shock him until the authorities arrive. <\/p>\n<p>Hmm, I wonder if we have to join some sort of superhero union before we start fighting crime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne and I have recently discovered that we&#8217;ve developed supernatural powers. Me, I have the amazing ability to generate vast amount of static electricity. I&#8217;m able to zap people and occasionally make computers reboot just by touching them. Like all superpowers, its power is also a curse. I&#8217;ve become afraid to close car doors because &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/staticman-and-lightbulbwoman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;StaticMan and LightbulbWoman&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}