{"id":17119,"date":"2013-03-07T20:42:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17119"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:51:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:51:29","slug":"syringes-are-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/syringes-are-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Syringes are Useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/various_bits\/IMG_7294.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/103677-2\/IMG_7294.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"60cc syringe and 19 gauge hypodermic needle, used for watering oyster mushroom growth media.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really glad that we keep syringes and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypodermic_needle\">hypodermic needles<\/a> around the house. The <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/home-grown-oyster-mushrooms\/\">oyster mushrooms that are growing in the basement<\/a> have stagnated and somewhat dried out, and I think that this is caused by the growth media drying out. Having a 60cc syringe and a 19 gauge needle sitting around I figured the easiest way to get water into the media without breaking open the plastic surrounding it was to inject it with water. A few syringe-fulls later and the media was quite a bit heavier, so hopefully the mushrooms will now grow properly.<\/p>\n<p>These 60cc syringes have also been quite useful for putting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notubes.com\/Sealant-C14.aspx\">Stan&#8217;s No Tubes Sealant<\/a> in bicycle tires, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luer_taper\">Luer taper<\/a> fitting fits very nicely over a Presta valve stem with the core removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really glad that we keep syringes and hypodermic needles around the house. The oyster mushrooms that are growing in the basement have stagnated and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/syringes-are-useful\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Syringes are Useful<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17269,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions\/17269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}