{"id":2964,"date":"2010-04-04T18:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T10:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2010-04-04T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T10:14:50","slug":"exploding-eggplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/04\/exploding-eggplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploding eggplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A general warning that one should always be sure to pierce the skin of an eggplant that is to be roasted&#8230; otherwise, one may hear a muffled &#8220;pop&#8221; 15 minutes after putting it in the oven and later discover an exploded aubergine.<\/p>\n<p>The skin may split longitudinally and a fair amount of its flesh may blow out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00569.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2963\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/dsc00569\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00569.jpg?fit=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Z610i&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1269064210&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC00569\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00569.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00569.jpg?fit=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00569.jpg?resize=480%2C360\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC00569\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00569.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00569.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the mess left in the oven may required some cleaning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00568.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2962\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/dsc00568\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00568.jpg?fit=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Z610i&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1269064196&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC00568\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00568.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00568.jpg?fit=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00568.jpg?resize=480%2C360\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC00568\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00568.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC00568.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also feel like a bit of a goose&#8230; because it&#8217;s pretty obvious really.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: I realise that I&#8217;ve been posting about food a lot recently. I&#8217;ll try to get back to posting about other things (eg. games and programming) as well; I&#8217;ve been doing some web and graphics programming recently.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A general warning that one should always be sure to pierce the skin of an eggplant that is to be roasted&#8230; otherwise, one may hear a muffled &#8220;pop&#8221; 15 minutes after putting it in the oven and later discover an exploded aubergine. The skin may split longitudinally and a fair amount of its flesh may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/04\/exploding-eggplant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploding eggplant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-LO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}