{"id":1967,"date":"2005-06-07T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2005-06-07T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T15:36:17","slug":"simultaneously-silly-and-annoying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1967","title":{"rendered":"Simultaneously silly and annoying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got one of those coffee cups with the sliding sippy lids, designed to keep you from doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellaawards.com\/\">Stella Liebeck<\/a> while driving.  I mostly use it to make sure I don&#8217;t dump a cuppa joe on my computer by accident.  For that, the lid works fine.  It keeps the coffee inside unless it&#8217;s been clicked open.  There&#8217;s even little air hole in the lid, cause you just can&#8217;t get the coffee out well unless there&#8217;s air flowing in to replace the caffeine that&#8217;s being sucked out, right?  It clicks open when the lid is open, so there shouldn&#8217;t be a problem.<\/p>\n<p>But there is.<\/p>\n<p>The little air hole is spaced exactly the same distance from the coffee hole as my mouth is from the tip of my nose.  So sometimes when I&#8217;m trying to drink, the cup sucks onto the tip of my nose.  This prevents air from going into the cup, and keeps me from getting my coffee.<\/p>\n<p>This is bad.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is fairly simple.  I need to tip my head back more while drinking.  Unfortunately, this makes the cup useless for drinking coffee safely while driving.  Sure, you won&#8217;t get a scalded lap, but staring out the sunroof is generally a bad idea while on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got one of those coffee cups with the sliding sippy lids, designed to keep you from doing a Stella Liebeck while driving. I mostly use it to make sure I don&#8217;t dump a cuppa joe on my computer by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}