{"id":106,"date":"2009-08-23T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T07:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/?p=106"},"modified":"2009-08-23T08:35:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T07:35:40","slug":"will-power-vs-ben-jerries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/2009\/08\/23\/will-power-vs-ben-jerries\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Power Vs Ben Jerries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear, what a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening I was relaxing in my lounge, watching the first episode of Stephen Fry&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00f2dfv\">Stephen Fry in America<\/a> on BluRay (oooh check me), and thoroughly enjoying it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d had dinner a few minutes before, so wasn&#8217;t particularly hungry &#8211; and was off out to the pub in an hour or so, so didn&#8217;t really want to eat\/drink anything else before that.<\/p>\n<p>A scene pops up, whereupon Stephen is at the home of Ben &amp; Jerries ice cream and &#8211; get this &#8211; being invited to make up his own flavor (sic) using various ingredients.  The result looked utterly delicious and &#8211; according to the TV programme &#8211; was.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I had two choices:<\/p>\n<p>1) Continue to watch the show<br \/>\n2) Pause the show, get out of chair, put my shoes on, walk down the road to ASDA, buy a pot of Ben &amp; Jerries Cookie Dough ice cream, walk back home, take shoes off, get spoon out, sit back down, open Cookie Dough pot and resume show whilst scoffing ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Guess which I chose.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d hope that the remaining episodes feature him going on a salad-only diet and cycling everywhere, but I&#8217;ve a feeling epsiode 2 may be at a brewery.  Oh dear.<\/p>\n<p>Pat<\/p>\n<p><small>Feeling: A bit hungover, but not too bad.  Off to Regents Park to watch us win the ashes today, wooh!<br \/>\nSong in head: None, oddly!<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear, what a disaster. Yesterday evening I was relaxing in my lounge, watching the first episode of Stephen Fry&#8217;s excellent Stephen Fry in America on BluRay (oooh check me), and thoroughly enjoying it. I&#8217;d had dinner a few minutes before, so wasn&#8217;t particularly hungry &#8211; and was off out to the pub in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}