{"id":80,"date":"2008-09-12T16:39:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T23:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2010-06-22T17:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T00:30:44","slug":"spork-you-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/spork-you-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Spork You Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dudes, I am so excited about the following that I had to take a picture and show you:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Way too excited by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2852233712\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3275\/2852233712_43b1b6264d.jpg\" alt=\"Way too excited\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am the proud new owner of a <strong>titanium spork<\/strong>. Available at REI and other fine retailers!<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, being a pasty nerd-type, I was not exactly in my element while at outdoorsy REI, but I pressed on! The spork would be mine! And there it was, with the rest of camping junk. Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>I have always wanted one, but never really thought to check REI or Big 5 or something, until yesterday when a brain synapse fired and it occurred to me that I could, you know, Google it. Success! And $7.95 later I have a titanium spork in my hot little hands.<\/p>\n<p>I use sporks a lot at work, but they are the plastic kind you get at Taco Bell or KFC. Now I know this one won&#8217;t break, so I am pretty stoked, all in all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/spork-you-later\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dudes, I am so excited about the following that I had to take a picture and show you: Yes, I am the proud new owner of a titanium spork. Available at REI and other fine retailers! I have to admit, being a pasty nerd-type, I was not exactly in my element while at outdoorsy REI, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/spork-you-later\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spork You Later&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}