{"id":97,"date":"2003-10-22T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T19:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=97"},"modified":"2003-10-22T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-22T19:06:04","slug":"get-on-the-peeps-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"get on the peeps bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Alice used to say &#8220;Get on the clue bus&#8221; all the time (in grade school, she went through a phase where she would say, &#8220;Today is the first day of the rest of your life.&#8221; It was incessant). I am not a regular rider of the clue bus, but I sure would like a pass on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshmallowpeeps.com\">Marshmallow Peeps fun bus<\/a>! As you can see, I am a proud, card-carrying member of the Peeps Fan Club:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/peeps membership.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"peeps membership.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/peeps membership-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy mother left for Japan yesterday. She went to visit her 98-year-old mother, who is not doing very well (note that last year, when we visited, she was still out in the fields pulling weeds!). She seems to be doing better, though, and now she gets up in the middle of the night to listen to the radio at full blast and\/or eat an orange. She has also taken to shouting out when she wants some coffee. Apparently, she keeps yelling until someone hears her and honors her request. I have a feeling this is how my father is going to act when I get to Portland &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Alice used to say &#8220;Get on the clue bus&#8221; all the time (in grade school, she went through a phase where she would say, &#8220;Today is the first day of the rest of your life.&#8221; It was incessant). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=97\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}