{"id":293,"date":"2018-11-16T19:35:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=293"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:35:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:35:47","slug":"hostess-twinkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/hostess-twinkies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostess Twinkies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hostess Twinkies<\/strong><br \/>\nAt 63, it\u2019s a wonder that I am alive.<br \/>\nMom put Hostess Twinkies<br \/>\nin my school lunch for dessert.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t remember the sugar high<br \/>\nthat gets so much talk today.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew about gluten? Grade school lunch: white bread,<br \/>\nbaloney and cheese, mustard and mayo sandwich<br \/>\nwith a bag of chips in a brown bag. Sometimes,<br \/>\nit would be peanut butter or cream cheese and jelly.<br \/>\nI bought my milk in the cafeteria, chocolate if I was lucky.<\/p>\n<p>And what about the milk?  It was whole.<br \/>\nNow, you are supposed to be drinking soy.<br \/>\nToday, someone is going to miss their cold glass of milk<br \/>\nand \u2018warm- from -the oven\u2019 fudge brownies.<\/p>\n<p>I ate hotdogs, not the ones certified<br \/>\norganic and 100% Angus, just plain hot dogs.<br \/>\nNo telling what was in them.  Nitrites for sure.<br \/>\nMustard and ketchup on the bun.  <\/p>\n<p>Today, a vegetarian, my cholesterol is high,<br \/>\nnot much to cut out of my menu.  I drink 2% milk,<br \/>\neat a cheese sandwich with mustard and mayo<br \/>\non whole wheat and wonder how much longer I have.<\/p>\n<p>The Raven&#8217;s Perch  2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostess Twinkies At 63, it\u2019s a wonder that I am alive. Mom put Hostess Twinkies in my school lunch for dessert. Don\u2019t remember the sugar high that gets so much talk today. Who knew about gluten? Grade school lunch: white bread, baloney and cheese, mustard and mayo sandwich with a bag of chips in a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/hostess-twinkies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hostess Twinkies.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}