{"id":6956,"date":"2025-07-08T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/hmph\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:22:57","slug":"hmph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/hmph\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was all like &#8220;Whoo, my electric composter machine is a rockstar!&#8221; And like a day later, it&#8217;s making worrying sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Not crunches or bangs or &#8220;Oh shit, the machine is grinding metal. Turn it off!&#8221; sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Just like a &#8220;murrrrr&#8221; of the blades not turning. And yeah, I just screwed up a couple days ago by running onion skins. They turn into ropes and clog things up where the blades can&#8217;t turn. So I had to unjam the blades.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time running my machine since then.<\/p>\n<p>The blades spin inside the bucket. But I don&#8217;t know if my machine&#8217;s motor got broke inside.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a handy person. I can&#8217;t fix motors. A simple fix in someone else&#8217;s hands is a junkable situation in mine.<\/p>\n<p>Every person is different, and I&#8217;m not Handy Manny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was all like &#8220;Whoo, my electric composter machine is a rockstar!&#8221; And like a day later, it&#8217;s making worrying sounds. Not crunches or bangs or &#8220;Oh shit, the machine is grinding metal. Turn it off!&#8221; sounds. Just like a &#8220;murrrrr&#8221; of the blades not turning. And yeah, I just screwed up a couple days&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/hmph\/\" title=\"Hmph\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hmph<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-6956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2pPoL-hmph","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/watching-grandmas-boy-right-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":6956,"position":0},"title":"watching Grandma&#8217;s Boy RIGHT NOW","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"September 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I will admit to my secret love for \"Corky Romano,\" \"Dude, Where's My Car?\" and \"Grandma's Boy.\"There. 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