{"id":761,"date":"2007-01-23T07:54:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2007-01-23T07:54:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T15:54:33","slug":"the-bacon-it-is-calling-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"The Bacon.  It is Calling Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right, this is getting ridiculous.  I NEED to eat the Tim Hortons breakfast sandwich and I am GOING to get one today.  I have no discernable schedule &#8211; how can I not get to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Hortons\"> Tim Hortons,<\/a> which is a 15 minute walk if we dawdle, by 11 am 5 days running?<\/p>\n<p>See, now that I&#8217;ve committed myself with people watching, it&#8217;ll happen.<\/p>\n<p>As a reward, I will tell you later about how good the bacon was or was not.  But of course, it will be good, because it&#8217;s bacon and the only way bacon is not good is if it is raw (although some people believe &#8220;smoked&#8221; = cooked and will eat raw, slimy bacon right out of the deli case; man, the first time I saw that I was all &#8220;uh, buddy?  OK, I guess you know what you&#8217;re doing&#8230;&#8221;) or if it is bacon &#8220;bits&#8221; which are not bacon at all but little chunks of briquette, based on what was sprinkled on the &#8220;Works&#8221; I had at New York Fries on Sunday.  <\/p>\n<p>Dudes, &#8220;The Works&#8221; = fries, chili, cheese sauce, green onion and bacon bits.  Supposed to have sour cream too but I drew the line there because sour cream grosses me out. <\/p>\n<p>But I added malt vinegar and Tabasco.  You know, for flavour.<\/p>\n<p>(I know.  I&#8217;m a foul, inconsistent creature.  And no, I&#8217;m not pregnant again.)<\/p>\n<p>It was immediately satisfying but I was hungry again an hour later.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, this is getting ridiculous. I NEED to eat the Tim Hortons breakfast sandwich and I am GOING to get one today. I have no discernable schedule &#8211; how can I not get to Tim Hortons, which is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=761\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}