{"id":2368,"date":"2008-09-09T23:57:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T06:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2008-09-09T23:57:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T06:57:30","slug":"holding-the-hunger-spread-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Holding the hunger, spread it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bad habit.<\/p>\n<p>I nearly never finish any meal.<\/p>\n<p>Any leftovers, I stretch it out to a day, 2 days, or sometimes 3 days.  I plan as the meal arrives, almost unconsciously.  <i>I will eat only half of the rice.  Eat only 3 pieces of the chicken so I will have something to eat tomorrow.  Maybe this will go good with some pasta&#8230;and more seasoning&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, I got the pork chop with sweet potatoes.  The hunk of meat was so big.  I started taking bites, cutting with a knife.  As I reached the middle, by habit I started portioning.  One small serving of sweet potatoes.  One small serving of the pork chop.  I automatically started thinking of how I would ask for a to-go container\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwould it be Styrofoam?  Aluminum?  Waxed paper box?<\/p>\n<p>But I had to reel myself back.  I was at a wedding after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bad habit. I nearly never finish any meal. Any leftovers, I stretch it out to a day, 2 days, or sometimes 3 days. I plan as the meal arrives, almost unconsciously. I will eat only half of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2368\">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-2368","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\/2368","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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}