{"id":165,"date":"2004-12-19T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2004-12-19T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2004-12-19T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2004-12-19T18:19:08","slug":"always-bet-on-vanilla-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/12\/19\/always-bet-on-vanilla-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"always bet on vanilla&#8230; or not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hrmm&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/neon.polkaroo.net\/~mhoye\/blarg\/\">Mike<\/a>&#8216;s blog closes posts after a certain amount of time (presumably to cut down on comment spam), but doesn&#8217;t tell you until <em>after<\/em> you&#8217;ve spent a couple minutes typing it all out. Frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, because I refuse to throw away those two minutes of my life, here&#8217;s my comment to <a href=\"http:\/\/neon.polkaroo.net\/~mhoye\/blarg\/archives\/002819.php\">one of his posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Back to the President&#8217;s Choice grinder &#8211; did you know it had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidentschoice.ca\/en\/products\/product_page.aspx?ProductId=16742&#38;Section=pc_great_foods&#038;&#038;38;CategoryId=178\">vanilla bean<\/a> in it as well? I&#8217;m thinking the vanilla\/cinnamon combination may not be the culprit. I&#8217;m wondering how much salt is in the ice cream, as I would suspect that may have more to do with it. I&#8217;ll have to try it out, because I really need some creamy genoa goodness (I&#8217;ll leave the salami out of that visual, thank you very much).<\/p>\n<p>Coop &#8211; you saw both of them with Axe. Doesn&#8217;t that count as being informed? That said, I will admit, I consider both movies &#8220;not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good&#8221; &#8211; especially that whole rave-sprinkler thing at the start. And Kris Kristofferson &#8211; what a riveting performance!<\/p>\n<p>Always bet on black.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok, that&#8217;s all for now. Does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\">Moveable Type<\/a> allow you to let people know comments are closed for an item, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> does?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hrmm&#8230; Mike&#8216;s blog closes posts after a certain amount of time (presumably to cut down on comment spam), but doesn&#8217;t tell you until after you&#8217;ve spent a couple minutes typing it all out. Frustrating. In any event, because I refuse to throw away those two minutes of my life, here&#8217;s my comment to one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}