{"id":2161,"date":"2007-10-16T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2007-10-16T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T22:30:37","slug":"there-was-once-when-you-said-i-was-greedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2161","title":{"rendered":"There was once when you said I was greedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be so greedy,&#8221; he said after I choked from trying to eat a handful of chocolate-covered strawberry gummies that were so so so good.<\/p>\n<p>I started feeling guilty.  Was it greedy to take a handful of candy?  If I see a big bowl of m&#038;ms, sometimes I can&#8217;t help but take a handful to eat it all.  A bag of sour candy is guaranteed to be gone in 10 minutes even when I try to pace myself.  And worse when I have jelly belly beans, I sometimes don&#8217;t take my time savoring each bean and rather just put them together\u00e2\u20ac\u201da grape pear cherry chocolate banana popcorn coffee root beer cream soda peanut butter coconut tutti frutti sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>After I recovered (and had experience the satisfaction that only chocolate-covered strawberry gummies can bring), I said, &#8220;You can&#8217;t say that when I see you gulping a bagel down in less than 3 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then in a moment of enlightenment, I added, &#8220;You ate half of the tube the last time you bought one of these for me!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be so greedy,&#8221; he said after I choked from trying to eat a handful of chocolate-covered strawberry gummies that were so so so good. I started feeling guilty. Was it greedy to take a handful of candy? If I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}