{"id":23,"date":"2006-08-10T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/08\/no-thank-you.html"},"modified":"2010-03-22T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:42:44","slug":"no-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/08\/no-thank-you.html","title":{"rendered":"No Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice little eatery in town with wonderful ice cream and good lunch offerings. My co-worker and I went there recently, and I asked if they put eggs into their bread. I wanted a sandwich, but I&#8217;m allergic to eggs (they make me crazy for four days &#8212; a little dyslexic and a lot moody). The answer came back, yes. Bummer.<\/p>\n<p>We were just going to leave and find another spot for lunch when one of the little ladies that works there came flying out of the kitchen to say that there&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">normally<\/span> egg in the bread, but they&#8217;d forgotten it this morning.  Wonderful!  We decided to stay for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>The little lady behind the counter was so excited that things had worked out. Was this our first time stopping for lunch? Accidents sure could work in our favor, couldn&#8217;t they? What luck they weren&#8217;t always perfect. The bread really wasn&#8217;t any worse off without the egg. She&#8217;s not quite sure why they always put the egg in there. But people <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">will<\/span> follow recipes&#8230;  Oh, and as to the specifics of the sandwich: &#8220;Would you like egg salad on that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and yes, I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/08\/no-thank-you.html\">feeling a little better<\/a>, thanks.  Chocolate and a good cry can work wonders.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice little eatery in town with wonderful ice cream and good lunch offerings. My co-worker and I went there recently, and I asked if they put eggs into their bread. I wanted a sandwich, but I&#8217;m allergic to eggs (they make me crazy for four days &#8212; a little dyslexic and a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/08\/no-thank-you.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Thank You<\/span> <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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portraits-of-people-and-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}