{"id":5823,"date":"2021-06-10T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T03:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2022-03-08T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:36:18","slug":"dead-heater-no-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/dead-heater-no-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead heater No. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/heater-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5824\" src=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/heater-8-1024x720.jpg\" alt=\"Another dead heater\" width=\"720\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/heater-8-1024x720.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/heater-8-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/heater-8-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/heater-8.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just looking at this one evokes a childhood memory of an occasion when I had a <a title=\"When teddies die\" href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/when-teddies-die-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">teddy bear<\/a> and there was a gas heater in the living room not unlike this one. One evening, when the fire was on, I accidentally leant the teddy against the protective guard until his fur melted.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how long it was before somebody noticed the smell of synthetic fur singeing. It can\u2019t have been long but it left an indelible impression on my mind, as well as the teddy\u2019s backside. From then on, teddy carried the scorched pattern of the fire-guard on his fur as if branded for life. He was the burnt bear, a constant reminder to me of the dangers of getting too close to the flame.<\/p>\n<p>Find more dead heaters <a href=\"http:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/when-oil-heaters-die\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just looking at this one evokes a childhood memory of an occasion when I had a teddy bear and there was a gas heater in the living room not unlike this one. One evening, when the fire was on, I accidentally leant the teddy against the protective guard until his fur melted. I\u2019m not sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-new-rubbish","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-icon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5827,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions\/5827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}