{"id":22303,"date":"2004-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/07\/spinach-or-flamethrower\/"},"modified":"2004-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T06:00:00","slug":"spinach-or-flamethrower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/07\/spinach-or-flamethrower\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinach or Flamethrower?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was on my commute to work this morning, sitting at a stoplight and something caught my eye. It was written on the side of a Wendy&#8217;s, in fluorescent green, yellow, and orange letters: SPINACH. That caught me by surprise. How times have changed. Spinach used to be considered (and I think still is) by kids to be the worst vegetable. Maybe brussel sprouts is just as loathed. At any rate, Wendy&#8217;s was calling attention to their Spinach and Chicken Salad, which doesn&#8217;t sound too bad. Except when I go to Wendy&#8217;s, I&#8217;m thinking &#8220;burger&#8221;. Then later on in my commute, I passed a DairyQueen. On the side of their restaurant was a banner that read &#8220;Flamethrower Belt-buster Burger&#8221;. Now that&#8217;s more like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was on my commute to work this morning, sitting at a stoplight and something caught my eye. It was written on the side of a Wendy&#8217;s, in fluorescent green, yellow, and orange letters: SPINACH. That caught me by surprise. How times have changed. Spinach used to be considered (and I think still is) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/07\/spinach-or-flamethrower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spinach or Flamethrower?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5NJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}