{"id":806,"date":"2006-03-22T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2006-03-22T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T07:34:00","slug":"the-perils-of-not-having-a-dining-room-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-perils-of-not-having-a-dining-room-table\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of not having a dining room table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger and living with my parents, I would inspect every corner of each cereal box as I sat at the table munching on my Pops or Golden Grahams or Honeycomb or Froot Loops. I would count the hidden fruits, fill in the simple crosswords, and answer the trivia questions a hundred times in my head. And I&#8217;d do it again and again, same box, different day. <\/p>\n<p>And then I moved off to college and haven&#8217;t eaten at a dining room table since. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight I sat down with the Fruity Pebbles box (there&#8217;s a new color \u2014 pink! You can&#8217;t notice these things unless you read the box) and counted the Bedrock denizens who&#8217;d turned pink, and the number of times &#8220;pink&#8221; was hidden in the drawing, and the hidden pink berries. <\/p>\n<p>And it turns out I wasn&#8217;t missing all that much. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;d still really like to have a table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger and living with my parents, I would inspect every corner of each cereal box as I sat at the table munching on my Pops or Golden Grahams or Honeycomb or Froot Loops. I would count the hidden fruits, fill in the simple crosswords, and answer the trivia questions a hundred times in my head. And I&#8217;d do it again and again, same box, different day. And then I moved off to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-d0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}