{"id":12164,"date":"2022-12-13T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12164"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:47:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:47:18","slug":"digital-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12164","title":{"rendered":"Digital soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a trip to town in recent days, your &#8216;umble scribe was intrigued by the <em>digital soup spotted in a shop display window,<\/em><\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/digital_soup.jpg\" alt=\"Digital soup maker on display in shop window\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/digital_soup.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/digital_soup-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n<p>My initial thought was &#8220;<em>What is digital soup?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\r\n<p>Is it made of fingers? Or are ones and zeroes involved? Is the digital a defiant gesture to all soup makers marketed before?<\/p>\r\n<p>As it turns out, ones and zeroes are indeed involved and the digital part of the apparatus refers to the device&#8217;s <em>digital<\/em> control panel, as depicted below.<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/digital_control_panel.jpg\" alt=\"Soup maker digital control panel\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/digital_control_panel.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/digital_control_panel-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/digital_control_panel-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/digital_control_panel-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a trip to town in recent days, your &#8216;umble scribe was intrigued by the digital soup spotted in a shop display window, My initial thought was &#8220;What is digital soup?&#8220; Is it made of fingers? Or are ones and zeroes involved? Is the digital a defiant gesture to all soup makers marketed before? As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,17,9],"tags":[40,36,16,25,22,23],"class_list":["post-12164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-tech","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-food","tag-language","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12170,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions\/12170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}