{"id":3216,"date":"2026-05-24T21:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:14:06","slug":"popcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=3216","title":{"rendered":"Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently switched to a different (larger) popcorn kernel, and I didn&#8217;t account for this when measuring it out by eye. These popcorns popped up much larger than the old ones, and the volume was so great that they lifted the lid off the pot. They could not be contained!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3217\" style=\"width: 771px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/popcorn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/popcorn-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/popcorn-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/popcorn-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/popcorn-768x1020.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/popcorn-1156x1536.jpg 1156w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/popcorn-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/popcorn-1200x1594.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/popcorn.jpg 1767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Popcorn escaping the bounds of the pot, lifting the metal lid off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently switched to a different (larger) popcorn kernel, and I didn&#8217;t account for this when measuring it out by eye. These popcorns popped up much larger than the old ones, and the volume was so great that they lifted the lid off the pot. They could not be contained!<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}