{"id":1791,"date":"2011-01-16T22:17:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T02:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2011-01-16T22:17:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T02:17:31","slug":"sunday-night-post-pongal-preachings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/01\/16\/sunday-night-post-pongal-preachings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night &#8211; post pongal preachings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gathered from some of my friends Facebook posts that yesterday was Pongal .. a harvest festival celebrated in India.. It&#8217;s a time where you are supposed to &#8220;rise above petty preoccupation and mundane melancholy&#8221;.. not a bad sentiment\u00a0 !..\u00a0\u00a0 I celebrated by eating some of Diane&#8217;s Chole.. She&#8217;s an awesome Indian cook.\u00a0 I used is as an excuse to dip into my huge collection of Indian pickle.. (makes my mouth water even typing that !)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jan1611\/img_0984.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Including 5 different bottles of chili pickle.. some of them 3 years past date.. the BEST KIND !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs1395.snc4\/164729_484269466370_642051370_6531925_580169_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aside from eating weirdly preserved vegetables, I had a slow and peaceful day.. Diane and I took a great snowshoe\u00a0 wiht the dogs in the 18 inches of snow out in the woods.\u00a0\u00a0 I spent\u00a0 most of the rest of the day working on my tesla coil .. Still got a few bugs.. but seems to be working .. I&#8217;m now working on the music interface.. Here&#8217;s a half power demo at various frequencies.. .. the sparks are just over 2 feet.. I hope to tune it to get another foot or so..\u00a0\u00a0 Sorry the video is so shaky.. I was twisting knobs and trying not to get zapped.. It looks better than it feels.. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http%3A%2F%2Fvid147.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fr319%2Fjohncohn%2Fjan1611%2Ftesla.mp4\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.photobucket.com\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>OK.. all for now.. gotta sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gathered from some of my friends Facebook posts that yesterday was Pongal .. a harvest festival celebrated in India.. It&#8217;s a time where you are supposed to &#8220;rise above petty preoccupation and mundane melancholy&#8221;.. not a bad sentiment\u00a0 !..\u00a0\u00a0 I celebrated by eating some of Diane&#8217;s Chole.. She&#8217;s an awesome Indian cook.\u00a0 I used &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/01\/16\/sunday-night-post-pongal-preachings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night &#8211; post pongal preachings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,30,28],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chili-pickle","tag-pongal","tag-tesla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}