{"id":80,"date":"2003-06-21T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2003-06-21T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2003-06-21T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2003-06-21T17:07:40","slug":"eating-things-for-fun-and-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/06\/eating-things-for-fun-and-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating things for fun and profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the first time I ate something for money was in college.  It wasn&#8217;t anything gross, just an odd combination of items.  The one that sticks out most was<br \/>\nthe apple covered in chili and ketchup for $1.25. Last night Kitty offered me $5 for eating a wadded up portion of her napkin.  It wasn&#8217;t very flavorful, but at<br \/>\nleast it didn&#8217;t get stuck in my throat.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes my food choices are just odd in and of themselves, with no monetary incentive involved.  John G is fond of recalling the time at 59 Diner when my meal<br \/>\nconsisted of a bowl of navy bean soup, frito pie, and a banana shake.<\/p>\n<p>I am not alone among my circle of friends in doing odd things with food for spare change.  Jonathan was persuaded to chug a half-bottle of soy sauce during<br \/>\nMikado for $5; but the most daring feat must be acknowledged to be George&#8217;s doing a shot of honey from a honey bear up each nostril for approximately $12 at one<br \/>\nof our poker games in Austin.  He couldn&#8217;t smell for several weeks after that, and has blamed his allergies on us ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Also, my brother just reminded me he took and conquered Richard&#8217;s Wasabi Challenge solely for the honor of the matter.  For details, <A \nHref=\"mailto:dwhite27@houston.rr.com?Subject='Wasabi Challenge'\">email him<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the first time I ate something for money was in college. It wasn&#8217;t anything gross, just an odd combination of items. The one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-1i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}