{"id":50,"date":"2003-09-18T21:02:36","date_gmt":"2003-09-19T01:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2006-08-14T21:30:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T02:30:02","slug":"friends-dont-let-friends-eat-apricots-and-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Friends Don&#8217;t Let Friends Eat Apricots and Ice Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I&#8217;d be creative with my dessert tonight.  But you know, I don&#8217;t think apricots and cream work as good as peaches and cream.  It&#8217;s like apricots. . . with these cold bits of stuff on &#8217;em.  Well. . .I&#8217;ll eat it anyway.  What the heck.  At least I didn&#8217;t put chocolate syrup on it too.<\/p>\n<p>Lately Renton has been chewing on everything.  <em>Everything<\/em>.  There are teeth marks in my lamp shade.  I&#8217;m thinkin, if I wanted an animal that chews on stuff and poops in the tub, I&#8217;d&#8217;ve gotten a nasty ol&#8217; dog.  Yesterday, when he started going after my great grandmother&#8217;s quilt (I daresay I made mention of it in the last post), I thought enough&#8217;s enough; time to investigate!  So after putting the quilt into the closet with all the other potential chew toys, I look up the prob on the internet.  On all the sources I found (and I found quite a few), they started out with statements like, &#8220;. . .it&#8217;s a phase. . .they grow out of it. . . no worries&#8221;.  Good, keep reading. . . then at the end of these oh so helpful paragraphs were phrases like, &#8220;. . . except for the Siamese breed. . . unless it&#8217;s a Siamese. . . .Siamese have a tendency to. . .&#8221;  Yeah.  Siamese cats are known to have this penchant for chewing fabric stuff for <em>their entire life<\/em>.  Oh.  Bloody.  Boogers.  I&#8217;ll be hiding sweaters and pillows for twenty years.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I&#8217;d be creative with my dessert tonight. But you know, I don&#8217;t think apricots and cream work as good as peaches and cream. It&#8217;s like apricots. . . with these cold bits of stuff on &#8217;em. Well. . .I&#8217;ll eat it anyway. What the heck. At least I didn&#8217;t put chocolate syrup on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}