{"id":1143,"date":"2007-12-28T10:41:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2007-12-28T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T15:41:22","slug":"seasonal-pondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/12\/28\/seasonal-pondering\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal pondering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was grabbing a cup of what passes for coffee around here this morning, and there was a box of Swiss Valley cocoa mix sitting near the coffee machine.  As I poured my (real) sugar packet into my mug, I noticed the Swiss Valley box said the contents were made with &#8220;fresh milk.&#8221;  What in the h-e-double-hockey-sticks is the point of advertising fresh milk on the front of a box of powdered hot cocoa mix?  It&#8217;s a guarantee I can do without.  What, like you&#8217;re going to use spoiled milk in your product?  Better not fess up to that!<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230;.  At the risk of turning this post into a Facebookesque (Oh yes I <em>did<\/em>!) preference poll, is there a movie in your past that you can laugh at anew every time you see it?  An old standby?  A faithful flick that can deliver you from even the funkiest funk?  I was ripping &#8220;Caddyshack&#8221; to the server recently, and while running a quality check on the resulting file, I was reminded how much genius there is in that film.  I know Leah is a big fan of &#8220;Harold and Maude,&#8221; which I&#8217;ve never seen.  Steve Martin is even better in &#8220;The Jerk&#8221; than he is in &#8220;The Man with Two Brains.&#8221;  I&#8217;ve never been able to watch the gas station sniper scene in &#8220;The Jerk&#8221; without laughing out loud.  Ever.  Same with just about any frame of &#8220;Young Frankenstein.&#8221;  Or &#8220;Blazing Saddles.&#8221;  So, what about you?  And Cindy, if you say &#8220;13 Going On 30,&#8221; I&#8217;m going to give you a virtual wedgie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was grabbing a cup of what passes for coffee around here this morning, and there was a box of Swiss Valley cocoa mix sitting near the coffee machine. As I poured my (real) sugar packet into my mug, I noticed the Swiss Valley box said the contents were made with &#8220;fresh milk.&#8221; What in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-ir","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}