{"id":17514,"date":"2026-05-15T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17514"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:40:08","slug":"found-in-the-oven-after-cooking-thanksgiving-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=17514","title":{"rendered":"Found in the oven after cooking Thanksgiving dinner\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We crouched around the open oven like it was a crime scene. The thing was about the size of a thumb, oddly smooth in some places, jagged in others, with a thin metallic spine running through it. Someone muttered that it looked like a piece of a crashed drone. Another swore it had to be part of a broken dish. But the more we stared, the more unsettling it felt: this hadn\u2019t just sat there, it had survived something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only when we spotted the twisted remains of the ignition wheel did it click. A lighter. Someone must have dropped it onto a tray days ago, forgotten it, then slid everything back in for Thanksgiving. The oven heat had melted the plastic into a grotesque sculpture, leaving only the metal skeleton. The realization came with a chill: it could have exploded. We laughed it off in the end, but now, before every big meal, we double-check the oven like a ritual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We crouched around the open oven like it was a crime scene. The thing was about the size of a thumb, oddly smooth in some places, jagged in others, with a thin metallic spine running through it. Someone muttered that it looked like a piece of a crashed drone. Another swore it had to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17516,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17514\/revisions\/17516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}