{"id":1444,"date":"2009-03-16T07:39:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:44:29","slug":"a394-mystery-gizmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"#a394 :: Mystery gizmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/031609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1445\" title=\"031609\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/031609-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"031609\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/031609-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/031609-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/031609.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Every now and then a mystery washes up out of the ceaseless surf of crap inundating this house.<\/p>\n<p>What <i>is<\/i> this?<\/p>\n<p>It has the precise curves and clean-milled transparent plastic of an <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.com\">Apple <\/a>product, \u00a0but has a vinyl flap-valve at its center. No one in my family can explain it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then a mystery washes up out of the ceaseless surf of crap inundating this house. What is this? It has the precise curves and clean-milled transparent plastic of an Apple product, \u00a0but has a vinyl flap-valve at its center. No one in my family can explain it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-object","category-jetsam","category-part"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}