{"id":465,"date":"2005-09-17T23:03:20","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T03:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=465"},"modified":"2005-09-17T23:06:01","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T03:06:01","slug":"the-brain-freeze-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"The Brain Freeze Turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2126309\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.slate.msn.com\/media\/1\/123125\/122975\/2111849\/2125823\/050914_food_SLURPEE_ex.jpg\" alt=\"Slurpee\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2126309\/\">The Slurpee<sup>TM<\/sup> is now 40 years old<\/a>.  And with THAT piece of news, I must ask: what&#8217;s scarier?<\/p>\n<p>a. The fact that anyone kept track of how old the Slurpee is.<\/p>\n<p>b. The fact that anyone cared to <strong>report<\/strong> on the issue, much less write a 1,149 word piece on it.  Seriously, that&#8217;s how long the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2126309\/\">Slate article<\/a> is.<\/p>\n<p>c. The fact that I haven&#8217;t had a Slurpee in over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a tie between a and b.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slurpee turns 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}