{"id":138,"date":"2004-11-15T11:47:57","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T11:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2004-11-15T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T11:47:57","slug":"the_pause_that_refreshes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/15\/the_pause_that_refreshes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pause That Refreshes"},"content":{"rendered":"

So have you heard about the lastest taste innovations from the Jones Soda Company<\/a>?<\/p>\n

For those who don’t keep up on such things, Jones is kind of a second-tier contender in the Great Soft Drink Wars. Personally, I find their products way too sugary for my tastes, but I’ve long admired the company’s cool photographic labels<\/a>. The standard product line consists of traditional soda varieties — root beer, vanilla cream, black cherry — as well as some exotic but not too-far-out flavors such as watermelon, chocolate fudge, and blue bubblegum. Now, however, the mad scientists at Jones have outdone themselves by creating limited-edition seasonal flavors that include turkey and gravy, mashed potato and butter, greenbean casserole, cranberry sauce, and fruitcake. Sound nauseating? You have no idea. <\/a><\/p>\n

Personally, I suspect these holiday sodas were never intended for actual consumption. You’re just supposed to put them on the coffee table as a way of provoking laughter and remarks of good-natured disgust from your Christmas visitors, kind of like setting out a big tray of lutefisk<\/a>. At least, I hope that’s what the intention is. If someone out there really thinks a greenbean-flavored beverage sounds good, then I’m afraid there’s nothing more modern medicine can do to help you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So have you heard about the lastest taste innovations from the Jones Soda Company? For those who don’t keep up on such things, Jones is kind of a second-tier contender in the Great Soft Drink Wars. Personally, I find their products way too sugary for my tastes, but I’ve long admired the company’s cool photographic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}