{"id":137,"date":"2008-11-23T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=137"},"modified":"2016-09-11T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T09:47:17","slug":"and-kabooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/and-kabooms\/","title":{"rendered":"and Kabooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making tea this evening, I was presented with a reason why some people could be put off from cooking on an RV stove. I face this reason regularly, but tonight it was particularly spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>When I light a burner, I turn on the gas to lite\/hi and then turn the sparker. Said sparker has been acting up again as the knob is loose. After three tries, I gave up and reached for the lighter.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a bit of propane had accumulated by this time, so there was an impressive explosion when I lit the burner. This happens occasionally and it doesn&#8217;t faze me as I&#8217;m used to cooking with propane.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t ten years ago, however, and as I made tea tonight, I was transported back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/1998\/06\/15\/\">Aviemore, Scotland, on June 15th, 1998<\/a>. It was a cold and wet Monday night and I was craving soup. As I was doing the youth hostel circuit, I&#8217;d been lugging groceries and making my meals, but this was my first time encountering a gas stove that needed to be lit with matches. I put on quite a show for my fellow hostelers, what with my startled scream and falling on my butt. Ah, my first KABOOM. It was unforgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making tea this evening, I was presented with a reason why some people could be put off from cooking on an RV stove. I face this reason regularly, but tonight it was particularly spectacular. When I light a burner, I turn on the gas to lite\/hi and then turn the sparker. Said sparker has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,6,635,1276,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-oliver-bc","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}