{"id":2540,"date":"2006-06-05T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/sods-law-the-bbq-corollary\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T16:14:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T16:14:49","slug":"sods-law-the-bbq-corollary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/sods-law-the-bbq-corollary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sod&apos;s Law: the BBQ corollary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday was forecast to be a nice and sunny day, and so it was &#8211; for the most part. We had planned to assemble the BBQ that day, which we did (accompanied by a few members of the local the wasp population which decided to pay a visit and thus freaking me out). It was nonetheless a nice day out (but I was a bit to stressed out to enjoy it). <\/p>\n<p>We went to get a canister of propane (making sure to take the gas regulator with us, because apparently, there&apos;s a bajillion types and subtypes, depending on what sort of gas\/gas canister you want). Anyway, we got the gas, and it was still a lovely sunny warm day.<\/p>\n<p>I spent part of the afternoon making homemade, garlic-free, spicy BBQ sauce (which is quite NUMMAY, btw). The sun was pouring in through the kitchen windows.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:00 when I started making the kabobs, it started clouding up.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:30 when I lit the BBQ, it started raining.<\/p>\n<p>And thus is the archtypical example of Sod&apos;s Law.<\/p>\n<p>We still got everything cooked, and it was enjoyed by all.<\/p>\n<p><center><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/2006_06040007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/thumbs\/2006_06040007.jpg\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/2006_06040008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/thumbs\/2006_06040008.jpg\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/2006_06040010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/thumbs\/2006_06040010.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday was forecast to be a nice and sunny day, and so it was &#8211; for the most part. We had planned to assemble the BBQ that day, which we did (accompanied by a few members of the local the wasp population which decided to pay a visit and thus freaking me out). It&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/sods-law-the-bbq-corollary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Sod&apos;s Law: the BBQ corollary&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-british-way"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-EY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}