{"id":323,"date":"2008-07-19T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-07-19T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:05:00","slug":"a-public-service-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"A Public Service Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to be helpful to my bloggy friends whenever I can and today&#8217;s post is one I am sure will be invaluable to you.  <\/p>\n<p>If you order a set of Calphalon skillets from The Food Network Store they will come packed in &#8220;peanuts&#8221;.  And even though you can tell from the texture that they were those new &#8220;green&#8221; kind of peanuts, you should not assume they are the dissolving kind like the ones that came from the plant place a few weeks ago.  <strong><em>Those<\/em><\/strong> packing peanuts disappeared when you put them in water.<\/p>\n<p>From the Food Network Store?  Not so much.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIHpHCMJRCI\/AAAAAAAACC0\/CZFWX6QrcOE\/s1600-h\/packing_peanuts1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIHpHCMJRCI\/AAAAAAAACC0\/CZFWX6QrcOE\/packing_peanuts1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224713349782651938\" \/><\/a>This necessitated a call to TFNS to see what I <strong><em>should<\/em><\/strong> have done and if I had created a toxic substance that would still be negatively impacting the environment during the lives of my great grandchildren.  A cheerful young man named Jason took my call.  He assured me that the sludgy stuff in the pail could be safely dumped at the edge of the woods where it would &#8220;biodegrade&#8221; gracefully without harming any plants or wildlife.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIHpHeJZMAI\/AAAAAAAACC8\/BxDbZLxGQis\/s1600-h\/packing_peanuts2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIHpHeJZMAI\/AAAAAAAACC8\/BxDbZLxGQis\/packing_peanuts2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224713357287305218\" \/><\/a>I guess I just gave it a headstart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to be helpful to my bloggy friends whenever I can and today&#8217;s post is one I am sure will be invaluable to you. If you order a set of Calphalon skillets from The Food Network Store they will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}