{"id":628,"date":"2008-07-08T22:21:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2008-07-08T22:46:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T21:46:01","slug":"ghost-in-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Ghost in the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a little like a Stephen King storyline.<\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s something stirring in the house in south London. Something dark. Something mysterious. Something unnamed and malevolent. Something bad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For there has been much badness in this house this evening, my droogies.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes.<\/p>\n<p>The first piece of badness was the demon-possessed measuring of ingredients for my tea.<\/p>\n<p>Because the finished product was massive.<\/p>\n<p>At least as big as K2 &#8211; if not slightly &#8216;massier&#8217; around the middle.<\/p>\n<p>And, with the main course safely &#8211; if belt-looseningly &#8211; dealt with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There was the desert.<\/p>\n<p>700g of fresh fruit salad.<\/p>\n<p>Melon (many varieties), grapes (ditto), pineapple, strawberries, kiwi, mango, pomegranate (yes, really!) and something else.<\/p>\n<p>700g of it.<\/p>\n<p>No, just 700g, not 700g plus 700g because that would be 1,400g (or 1.4Kg if you prefer) and I&#8217;m not sure that even I could deal with gluttony on such a scale!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway now I am in bed.<\/p>\n<p>Eyeing up the bottle of Chocolate Fudge Brownie-flavoured Frijj milkshake, sitting on my bedside table.<\/p>\n<p>Right next to two Caramel bars.<\/p>\n<p>See what I mean?<\/p>\n<p>Much badness in the house this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Because there&#8217;s no way I would ordinarily consume such quantities.<\/p>\n<p>Oh no, not I.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m looking forward to the Stephen King book of the real-life experience.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope I can stomach it (bwahahaha!).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a little like a Stephen King storyline. There&#8217;s something stirring in the house in south London. Something dark. Something mysterious. Something unnamed and malevolent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}