{"id":12319,"date":"2008-10-27T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T08:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/tektite.html"},"modified":"2008-10-27T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T08:30:37","slug":"tektite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/10\/27\/tektite.html","title":{"rendered":"Tektite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">Thought to derive from meteorites.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tek-tite (hyphenated) is also the brand name for a line of LED flashlights. I have not owned a Tek-tite product but I own a small Maglite flashlight that I keep on my keychain. I bought this flashlight for the sole purpose of using it to read books and magazines in a particular low-lit pub that I frequent.<\/p>\n<p>I used to think of Maglite flashlights as novelty products. This is because I usually found them in gift shops on the same shelf as stuff like Charlie Chaplin bobblehead dolls and indigestion-themed lava lamps.<\/p>\n<p>Maglite flashlights often seem to come with voluminous amounts of supplementary material, including exhaustive specifications of the flashlight, multi-page warranty information, a carrying case, a felt cover for said case, and so on. You feel like you just bought a luxury product when really it&#8217;s just a light. No amount of supplementary reading material or velvet carrying cases will improve the functionality or usefulness of a flashlight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought to derive from meteorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-tektite","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}