{"id":635,"date":"2006-08-02T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2006-08-02T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:32:33","slug":"national_ice_cream_sandwich_da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/02\/national_ice_cream_sandwich_da\/","title":{"rendered":"National Ice Cream Sandwich Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has come to my attention that today is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.holidayinsights.com\/moreholidays\/August\/icecreamsandwich.htm\">National Ice Cream Sandwich Day<\/a>.&#8221; I can&#8217;t think of a food item more deserving of its own holiday than the ice cream sandwich, surely one of the greatest achievements of western civilization. I made it through middle school on an ice cream sandwich a day, purchased for 35 cents from these groovy vending machines on which you&#8217;d hit a big blue rectangular button, flip open a little door, and watch in awe as this conveyor-feed thingie raised your sandwich up into the slot. The whole thing looked like something you&#8217;d build with an erector set, and I haven&#8217;t seen a machine like this since about 1985. Sigh&#8230; good times.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday I&#8217;m really looking forward to, however, is coming up on August 8th; that&#8217;s &#8220;Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor&#8217;s Porch Night.&#8221; As anyone who&#8217;s ever been in Utah in the fall can attest, that&#8217;s the game that&#8217;d just keep on giving. Dang zucchini anyway. It&#8217;s like an unstoppable vegetable plague&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has come to my attention that today is &#8220;National Ice Cream Sandwich Day.&#8221; I can&#8217;t think of a food item more deserving of its own holiday than the ice cream sandwich, surely one of the greatest achievements of western civilization. I made it through middle school on an ice cream sandwich a day, purchased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","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\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}