{"id":205,"date":"2015-04-30T03:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T03:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excrcl.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2020-07-30T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:48:10","slug":"the-sauce-is-the-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"The Sauce is the Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another absurd story. I have a friend obsessed with condiments&#8211;she&#8217;s always putting ranch, seasoning, or most importantly, soy sauce, on her food. She recently told me, &#8220;You know, my friend ordered us some Chinese food, and she got these dumplings. They came with the <em>best<\/em> soy sauce, and lots of it. It&#8217;s <em>way<\/em> better than regular soy sauce. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve been ordering General Tsao&#8217;s chicken for so long when I could&#8217;ve been ordering these dumplings with this soy sauce. So you know what I did? I put all the extra soy sauce in a water bottle and I carry it in my bag. Now when the dining hall has no more soy sauce, not only do I have some, but the best kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are just too many things wrong with this statement for me even to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">Another absurd story. I have a friend obsessed with condiments&#8211;she&#8217;s always putting ranch, seasoning, or most importantly, soy sauce, on her food. She recently told me, &#8220;You know, my friend ordered us some Chinese food, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}