{"id":114,"date":"2006-11-24T00:16:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T08:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/24\/my-own-personal-boil-water-advisory\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T00:16:05","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T08:16:05","slug":"my-own-personal-boil-water-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/24\/my-own-personal-boil-water-advisory\/","title":{"rendered":"My Own Personal Boil Water Advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stuff coming out of my tap is looking a lot more like water and a lot less like languid mud.<\/p>\n<p>I decided a few days ago that it wasn&#8217;t even close to worth it to worry about the water for teeth brushing, and other incidentals.  I also did dishes, because it was getting a hard to find somewhere to put down new dirty dishes.  I&#8217;m still alive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still boiling water for drinking, mostly because it&#8217;s not that much of a hassle.  I tried an experiment tonight: I boiled water, let it cool and ran it through a Brita.  I&#8217;ve got to say, it&#8217;s downright tasty&mdash;the filter seems to suck the earthiness right out of it.<\/p>\n<p>But, I grew up with really <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hard_water\">hard water<\/a>, so I might have a different baseline than others.  To give you an idea, you could never drink the last inch out of the jug of water in my house.  A surprising amount of stuff would come out of solution and settle as it cooled.  That was always swirling around the bottom of the jug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stuff coming out of my tap is looking a lot more like water and a lot less like languid mud. I decided a few days ago that it wasn&#8217;t even close to worth it to worry about the water for teeth brushing, and other incidentals. I also did dishes, because it was getting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}