{"id":2027,"date":"2007-07-16T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2011-05-09T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T16:22:50","slug":"ever-had-your-rechargeable-aa-batteries-overheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/07\/16\/ever-had-your-rechargeable-aa-batteries-overheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever had your rechargeable AA batteries overheat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; while they were in your pants pocket? <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday on our road trip I started feeling this burning sensation in my pocket &#8230; I thought at first it was the sun coming through the car window, but it kept getting warmer and warmer. Then I stuck my hand in my pocket (I think this is still legal in the hands-free era) and noticed all the coins in there were burning hot, then I noticed the extra pair of AA rechargeable batteries there was hottest of all. <\/p>\n<p>Everything cooled down after I took it out of the pocket. The only explanation I could imagine was that somehow the coins had closed the circuit between the poles of the batteries. Guess I&#8217;m lucky they didn&#8217;t catch fire or explode&#8230; that would&#8217;ve been great fun on a curvy mountain road. <\/p>\n<p>Anybody ever hear of something like this happening?   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; while they were in your pants pocket? Yesterday on our road trip I started feeling this burning sensation in my pocket &#8230; I thought at first it was the sun coming through the car window, but it kept getting&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/07\/16\/ever-had-your-rechargeable-aa-batteries-overheat\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}