{"id":2480,"date":"2018-10-14T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T05:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2018-10-14T00:28:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T05:28:18","slug":"instant-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/14\/instant-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got up this morning and watched as the whole day burned away. I did motivate myself enough briefly to clean up after the cats and do a partial water change in the aquarium, but otherwise we just laid around all day long. Summer picked up some Wendy&#8217;s for lunch on her way back from the gym. Then I started the old family classic\u00a0<em>Blazing Saddles<\/em> half jokingly while she was in the shower, but we actually managed to finish it.<\/p>\n<p>After the girls left with their father for the night, I tried making some chicken as my first meal in the Instant Pot Ultra. I didn&#8217;t realize the rice would cook so quickly and keep the water from boiling and building up pressure, so what I thought was going to be a 10-minute meal ended up being a multiple-hour shit show that ended with me transferring the entire thing to a couple of glass dishes to bake in the oven. Luckly the food wasn&#8217;t completely ruined and we could eat it for a super late dinner, but by that point I was so tired, hungry, cranky, and frustrated that I was just exhausted from dealing with it in the first place. Even cooking that meal the traditional way only takes about 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Can&#8217;t you see that that man is a nih?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up this morning and watched as the whole day burned away. I did motivate myself enough briefly to clean up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,29,36,33],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-anger-management","tag-family","tag-food","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}