{"id":184,"date":"2008-08-08T08:08:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T06:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2008-08-08T12:52:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T10:52:25","slug":"what-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"What the ???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I unwrapped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=13\" target=\"_blank\">the oven<\/a>, I found an L shaped strip of stainless steel taped to the top. Couldn&#8217;t figure out what it was for.<\/p>\n<p>So I eventually opened the two packets of hardware that comes with the oven, and found the following instructions :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/wtf.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-185\" title=\"wtf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/wtf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read this as &#8220;If you&#8217;re looking at this bit of metal and you&#8217;re wondering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts\/frustrations\/3670\/?cpg=ab\" target=\"_blank\">WTF?<\/a>, this is what you need to do&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Appropriate.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:1655,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thinkgeek.com\\\/tshirts\\\/frustrations\\\/3670\\\/?cpg=ab&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080919160341\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thinkgeek.com:80\\\/tshirts\\\/frustrations\\\/3670\\\/?cpg=ab&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-31 05:33:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-07 14:31:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-12 13:48:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 07:28:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 09:26:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 09:26:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I unwrapped the oven, I found an L shaped strip of stainless steel taped to the top. Couldn&#8217;t figure out what it was for. So I eventually opened the two packets of hardware that comes with the oven, and found the following instructions : I read this as &#8220;If you&#8217;re looking at this bit of metal and you&#8217;re wondering WTF?, this is what you need to do&#8221;. Appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-house","tag-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}