{"id":562,"date":"2007-09-30T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-01-03T01:32:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:32:32","slug":"next-thing-i-know-itll-turn-out-that-st-jamess-really-was-eaten-by-a-giant-adenoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/09\/next-thing-i-know-itll-turn-out-that-st-jamess-really-was-eaten-by-a-giant-adenoid.html","title":{"rendered":"Next thing I know it&#8217;ll turn out that St James&#8217;s really was eaten by a giant adenoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cookylamoo\/1465547550\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/meggezone01a.jpg\" title=\"Whither the Fire of Paradise?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mrs. Quoad offering a tin of that least believable of English coughdrops, the Meggezone&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Meggezone is like being belted in the head with a Swiss Alp. Menthol icicles immediately begin to grow from the roof of Slothrop&#8217;s mouth. Polar bears seek toenail-holds up the freezing frosty-grape alveolar clusters in his lungs. It hurts his teeth too much to breathe, even through his nose, even, necktie loosened, with his nose down inside the neck of his olive-drab T-shirt. Benzoin vapors seep into his brain. His head floats in a halo of ice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even an hour later, the Meggezone still lingers, a mint ghost in the air&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thomas Pynchon, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/span>, pp.118.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Quoad offering a tin of that least believable of English coughdrops, the Meggezone&#8230; The Meggezone is like being belted in the head with a Swiss Alp. Menthol icicles immediately begin to grow from the roof of Slothrop&#8217;s mouth. Polar bears seek toenail-holds up the freezing frosty-grape alveolar clusters in his lungs. It hurts his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}