{"id":75,"date":"2006-02-08T18:07:16","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T23:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/wordpress\/75"},"modified":"2006-02-08T18:07:16","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T23:07:16","slug":"addicted-and-paying-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/75","title":{"rendered":"Addicted And Paying The Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Scene: Late Afternoon, a co-worker&#8217;s office]<\/em> I enter, holding a tiny plastic cup of something that looks at first glance like it&#8217;s chocolate pudding, with a bit of whipped cream on top&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong> <em>(Holding out cup)<\/em>: I just bought this in the cafeteria. If it was a cup of pudding, it would cost me about 75 cents. But being that its mousse, it cost me two bucks fifty. But since it&#8217;s late, and I need my chocolate fix, I have to pay up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Co-Worker:<\/strong> Is that really mousse?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong> <em>(shrugging)<\/em>: I reckon. I don&#8217;t know. What&#8217;s mousse?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Co-Worker:<\/strong> It looks like mousse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> So what is mousse?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Co-Worker:<\/strong> It has egg white in it, and they whip it up a lot more. Yeah&#8230;that looks like mousse all right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> So I&#8217;m paying a lot more for less, since most of what&#8217;s in this is air.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Co-Worker:<\/strong> Yeah. Pretty much. But mousse is good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Yes. Yes it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Scene: Late Afternoon, a co-worker&#8217;s office] I enter, holding a tiny plastic cup of something that looks at first glance like it&#8217;s chocolate pudding, with a bit of whipped cream on top&#8230; Me (Holding out cup): I just bought this in the cafeteria. If it was a cup of pudding, it would cost me about [&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-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}