{"id":832,"date":"2010-09-21T22:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T02:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2010-09-21T22:31:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T02:31:32","slug":"eggies-and-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"Eggies and Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_833\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ostrich_brekky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-833\" class=\"size-full wp-image-833\" title=\"ostrich_brekky\" src=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ostrich_brekky.jpg\" alt=\"Ostrich egg in a pan\" width=\"360\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ostrich_brekky.jpg 360w, https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ostrich_brekky-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frying a single ostrich egg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My post about hot and cold made me think about my imminent move to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In short, it occurs to me that it will take less time to make a hard-boiled egg over there.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t true for all of Australia, but I&#8217;ll be living very close to sea level, whereas I now live about 1000 feet up.<\/p>\n<p>So water boils more quickly here. But the thing about water boiling more quickly at a higher elevation is that unless you pressure cook, you really have a hard time getting water above 212\u00c2\u00b0 F (or 100\u00c2\u00b0 C, for the rest of the world).<\/p>\n<p>In other words, my water, at top temperature, is cooler than the top temperature of the water in Melbourne. So it takes longer to make a hard-boiled egg here than there. QED<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how much shorter, of course, and I assume it&#8217;s some tiny amount of time. But that&#8217;s not the point, man! I&#8217;m adding it to my list of why I should be happy to move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My post about hot and cold made me think about my imminent move to Australia. In short, it occurs to me that it will take less time to make a hard-boiled egg over there. This isn&#8217;t true for all of Australia, but I&#8217;ll be living very close to sea level, whereas I now live about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-science-and-such"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}