{"id":3159,"date":"2010-10-06T23:34:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T06:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2010-10-06T23:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T06:34:52","slug":"my-cucumber-was-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3159","title":{"rendered":"My cucumber was missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, my cucumber was missing.  Literally.<\/p>\n<p>But it was not as anxiety-causing as <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2667\">THE WALLET<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2446\">THE PASSPORT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I had sworn that I had put it in the corner next to my butter.  It was slightly moldy on on end, but I was ready to take it on.  Perhaps to make a the vermicelli salad with lettuce, carrots, green papaya, and cucumber.  Then topped with some nice grilled meat.  I thought about it after a long day at work on my long train ride (I had to catch the slow train)&#8230;and the slow drive back to my place.<\/p>\n<p>My roommate and a friend were about to depart for a show at the Marsh.  I debated going for a run but decided to prepare dinner first.  So I looked inside the fridge, expecting to find the ingredients that I was searching for.<\/p>\n<p>Carrots in the fresh compartment.  Check.<\/p>\n<p>Cucumber&#8230;not found?<\/p>\n<p>I noticed an empty drawer.  Completely empty.  And clean.<\/p>\n<p>My roommate had already left.<\/p>\n<p>But my cucumber?!  Gone!  Absent!  No mark!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I had considered using it in my dinner, but decided impulsively to make mashed potatoes instead with my brand new potato ricer (thanks to Williams-Sonoma).  But today, I intended to go all Asian&#8230;but to my horror, my cucumber was gone.<\/p>\n<p>I sulked.  Instead, I ate a hard-boiled egg and two soft tacos with apples, jalape\u00c3\u00b1o cheddar, green leaf lettuce.  Yeah so the latter does sound interesting but nothing like the vermicelli salad that would have been a great lunch for the next two days.<\/p>\n<p>I miss you, cucumber.  You were a present from Chris.  I remember the day that you arrived.  There were two\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI used one to make Chris&#8217; palate cleansing salad for his deep fry birthday party.  Then the other was supposed to be around today.<\/p>\n<p>If only the cleaning lady didn&#8217;t decide to toss out my cucumber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, my cucumber was missing. Literally. But it was not as anxiety-causing as THE WALLET or THE PASSPORT. Yesterday, I had sworn that I had put it in the corner next to my butter. It was slightly moldy on on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3159\">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-3159","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\/3159","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=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}