{"id":299,"date":"2004-09-10T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-11T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/10\/of-shoes-and-ships-and-sealing-wax\/"},"modified":"2004-09-10T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-11T05:09:00","slug":"of-shoes-and-ships-and-sealing-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/10\/of-shoes-and-ships-and-sealing-wax\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I ask the crowd on IRC tonight what I should write about in my LJ post. And I get the distinct feeling that they&#8217;re hungry or something.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Potatoes&#8221; said one. &#8220;Wheat Thins&#8221; said another. &#8220;Sunflower seeds&#8221; was the third food item suggested by someone else.<\/p>\n<p> I like potatoes. When I order baked potatoes, however, I have to be careful not to put too much butter\/margarine on &#8217;em. I can go WAY overboard if I&#8217;m not careful. I&#8217;ve discovered that if I salt them a bit, I can eat them with less butter\/margarine. Usually I&#8217;m not big on the salt on my taters thing. Not big on salt, period. Give me potato chips and I usually brush the salt off. Likewise with French fries. And PLEASE don&#8217;t give me coated fries or those horrid monstrosities that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burgerking.com\/\">Burger King<\/a> calls fried potatoes. <\/p>\n<p> When I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabiscoworld.com\/wheatthins\/\">Wheat Thins<\/a> I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0242098\/\">Sandy Duncan<\/a>, who was once their spokesperson. And when I think of her, I think of <I><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077305\/\">The Cat from Outer Space<\/a><\/I>. Then I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0077607\/\">Ken Berry<\/a> and then <a href=\"http:\/\/r-rwebdesign.com\/kinney\/\">Kinney Shoes<\/a> (he danced in some of their commercials &#8211; or at least, I remember him doing so). And then I get confused because I wonder why I&#8217;m eating Wheat Thins and thinking about shoes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> Sunflower seeds are a wonderful addition to any salad. And once you rub the salt off of &#8217;em, they&#8217;re great for munching on their own. Yeah, me and the salt thing. I even rub salt off of my cashews. And I often rub the salt onto my jeans afterwards, to clean my hand off for the next batch of salted food items that I wish were unsalted. Why not simply buy unsalted? Well, in potato chips, that&#8217;s rare to find. I do buy unsalted sunflower seeds and nuts, but sometimes I&#8217;m eating things purchased by others. Or the salted stuff was on sale but the unsalted was not. (And what&#8217;s up with that???)<\/p>\n<p> The folks on IRC got to talking about other things as well, but I thought those three items would be more than enough to fill up a post. And I was right, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I ask the crowd on IRC tonight what I should write about in my LJ post. And I get the distinct feeling that they&#8217;re hungry or something. &#8220;Potatoes&#8221; said one. &#8220;Wheat Thins&#8221; said another. &#8220;Sunflower seeds&#8221; was the third food item suggested by someone else. I like potatoes. When I order baked potatoes, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}