{"id":135,"date":"2002-03-20T01:18:31","date_gmt":"2002-03-20T00:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2007-01-07T01:31:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T00:31:22","slug":"fire-breathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2002\/03\/fire-breathing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"me fire breathing\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Toys\/fireStaff.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\nKix got me a fire staff for my 22nd birthday. You soak each end in parafin and light it. I learnt some staff tricks but only to a basic level. The strange thing about a fire staff is that it spins more slowly when it&#8217;s alight. It makes a glorious noise as the burning ends whish past your ears.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>About the same time I learnt to fire breath.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"me fire breathing\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/mefirebreathing.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\"><br \/>\n<i>(me fire breathing at Reading festival)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kix got me a fire staff for my 22nd birthday. You soak each end in parafin and light it. I learnt some staff tricks but only to a basic level. The strange thing about a fire staff is that it spins more slowly when it&#8217;s alight. It makes a glorious noise as the burning ends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-toy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}