{"id":1234,"date":"2012-10-25T18:59:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T01:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2012-10-25T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T01:59:37","slug":"the-true-reason-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/the-true-reason-for-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Reason for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not to relive our childhood fantasies by playing dress up\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s to relive our childhood sugar rushes by eating Monster Cereal.<\/p>\n

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Every year, I do just that very thing.<\/p>\n

And every year, I\u2019m reminded of just how awful this seasonal treat really is. For some reason (rightly or wrongly) I remember the monster cereals as being a little more powdery (think: colored Lucky Charms) and a lot better tasting. Instead, the cereal is shiny, glazed and lacking in all but the slightest hint of artificial fruit flavoring. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I don\u2019t expect it to taste like real blueberries. In fact, it\u2019s quite the opposite, I really expect it to taste like fake blueberries, much the same way I expect Hawaiian Punch should never, ever, under any circumstances, start tasting like punch. The flavor, however, can be best described as \u201cCrunchy Sugar\u201d. <\/p>\n

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Admittedly, I do like sugar, and if I keep the mindset that I\u2019m just eating generic, high fructose, artificially colored children\u2019s cereal (you know, the kind with added vitamins & minerals \/ guilty parent panacea)\u2026 if I pretend and squint, it ain\u2019t half bad. <\/p>\n

Perhaps I\u2019ll buy it again next year.<\/p>\n

Almost certainly, I\u2019ll be disappointed. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not to relive our childhood fantasies by playing dress up\u2026 It\u2019s to relive our childhood sugar rushes by eating Monster Cereal. Every year, I do just that very thing. And every year, I\u2019m reminded of just how awful this seasonal treat really is. For some reason (rightly or wrongly) I remember the monster cereals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,96],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idle","tag-childhood","tag-idlelife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}