{"id":4603,"date":"2014-02-03T23:58:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T07:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2014-02-04T00:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T08:02:22","slug":"simplicity-in-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4603","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity in taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tasted my salted caramel ice cream again today after dinner.  The one where I had mixed bits of leftover sponge cake from a failed swiss roll experiment (the cake wasn&#8217;t bendy enough and fell to pieces when rolled).  In the small moment, memories of all my ice cream moments blasted through me.<\/p>\n<p>You see, it has been slightly over a year since I launched the Kickstarter.  And like many projects, it got more complex than I anticipated.  I wasn&#8217;t happy with it exactly.  And the years trained as a designer, I felt unease.<\/p>\n<p>But you see, the project all started with a simple taste of ice cream.  Probably when I was younger.  When my dad generously put scoops into plastic bowls that perhaps came from an airline meal.  Our mom was most likely at work at her PM shift as a nurse.  And it was the <i>father only<\/i> evening.  There I probably had ice cream.  Most likely storebought.  But it&#8217;s memories of those evenings where we weren&#8217;t rushed, pushed to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>I remember tasting freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tasted my salted caramel ice cream again today after dinner. The one where I had mixed bits of leftover sponge cake from a failed swiss roll experiment (the cake wasn&#8217;t bendy enough and fell to pieces when rolled). In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4603\">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-4603","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\/4603","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=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}