{"id":63,"date":"2007-02-20T18:03:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T23:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2007\/02\/20\/top-parts\/"},"modified":"2007-02-20T18:03:42","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T23:03:42","slug":"top-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"top parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been eating a ton of toaster pastries lately (you know, non-name-brand Pop Tarts) because &#8230; see, I don&#8217;t usually look at advertising.  I am Generation X, I am a product of Saturday Morning Cartoon Syndrome where every commercial was a blaring advertisement and every cartoon was a commercial, and none of the toys actually functioned as promised.  So yeah, I tend not to notice ads.  I have been trained since childhood to tune them out.  GUESS THAT DIDN&#8217;T WORK OUT SO WELL FOR YOU, DID IT, MARKETROIDS?<\/p>\n<p>Those guys, I swear &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Aaaaaaaanyway, I went in to Kroger the other day to get some toothpaste and I practically ran in to some aisle stack of a nice pleasing arrangement of geometric shapes.  I turned to look at this huge pile of smallish boxes, and there above them were the magic words &#8211; TEN FOR TEN DOLLARS.  That&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>A box of toaster pastries.<\/p>\n<p>For a dollar.<\/p>\n<p>I will not tell you how many I bought other than to say it was less than ten but far more than one.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m eating toaster pastries.  Right now.  If you want some you can come over and have some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been eating a ton of toaster pastries lately (you know, non-name-brand Pop Tarts) because &#8230; see, I don&#8217;t usually look at advertising. I am Generation X, I am a product of Saturday Morning Cartoon Syndrome where every commercial was a blaring advertisement and every cartoon was a commercial, and none of the toys actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}