{"id":2454,"date":"2011-03-19T08:42:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T14:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2011-03-19T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T14:42:37","slug":"little-e-vs-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/03\/19\/little-e-vs-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Little E vs. Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/sarah-jane\/034-the-gift-1.jpg\" alt=\"Blathereen\" class=alignright \/>I made myself a well-decent salad this morning.  Grated my own cheese and everything.  I didn&#8217;t have much dressing &#8211; it turns out we were out of ranch dressing &#8211; but I managed to find a couple of little packets of Chick-Fil-A ranch sauce and dumped them in there.  Probably added a thousand calories that way, but hey, it was tasty.  Plenty of croutons too.  Always plenty of croutons, or you&#8217;re just doin&#8217; it wrong.  When Little E heard the crunch, he was suddenly much more interested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>E:<\/strong> Dad, is that graham crackers?<br \/>\n<strong>ME:<\/strong> No, it&#8217;s croutons in my salad.  They&#8217;re made of bread.  You want one?<br \/>\n<strong>E:<\/strong> Okay.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>crunch crunch + pause<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>E:<\/strong> It&#8217;s not like pizza.<br \/>\n<strong>ME:<\/strong> No, most people don&#8217;t put pizza stuff in their salad.  You want another bite with green leafy stuff and some cheese?  It&#8217;s good.<br \/>\n<strong>E:<\/strong> Does it taste like pizza?<br \/>\n<strong>ME:<\/strong> No.<br \/>\n<strong>E:<\/strong> I just want pizza.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admire his honesty and his ability to start from the general and hang a sharp right turn toward the specific.  He just wants pizza.  For breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it makes as much sense as salad for breakfast, big guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made myself a well-decent salad this morning. Grated my own cheese and everything. I didn&#8217;t have much dressing &#8211; it turns out we were out of ranch dressing &#8211; but I managed to find a couple of little packets of Chick-Fil-A ranch sauce and dumped them in there. Probably added a thousand calories that way, but hey, it was tasty. Plenty of croutons too. Always plenty of croutons, or you&#8217;re just doin&#8217; it wrong. When Little E heard the crunch, he was suddenly much more interested. E: Dad, is that graham crackers? ME: No, it&#8217;s croutons in my salad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-baby-makes-three"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}