{"id":64695,"date":"2019-01-27T23:54:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=64695"},"modified":"2019-01-27T23:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:54:42","slug":"sunday-night-well-trained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/01\/27\/sunday-night-well-trained\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night &#8211; well trained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a powerful case of procrastination yesterday.. I had a ton of work to do.. but instead I decided to resurrect the old model train we used ot have running above the soffit i our kitchen. It&#8217;s something I put there for the kids many .many years ago.. It hasn&#8217;t run in something like 15 years. . I got up there and cleaned off a ton of dust.. then sanded the tracks to get off the rust, then coated them with silicon. I cleaned and oiled the old large gauge engine and found the transformer.. I was surprised that the thing came right back to life..<\/p>\n<p>I decided to give it a bit more magic.. so aI found a ZigBee controlled smart plug and linked it to our old Smarthings hub.. then i tied that to alex.. and Voila.. a speech controlled train.. that surprises, delights and eventually annoys at the sound of your voice..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ush6UXaJsE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>some kitchens have all the modern appliances.. we have train. i like that better<\/p>\n<p>nite all. nite sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a powerful case of procrastination yesterday.. I had a ton of work to do.. but instead I decided to resurrect the old model train we used ot have running above the soffit i our kitchen. It&#8217;s something I put there for the kids many .many years ago.. It hasn&#8217;t run in something like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/01\/27\/sunday-night-well-trained\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night &#8211; well trained<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64695","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=64695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64696,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64695\/revisions\/64696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}