{"id":716,"date":"2009-03-02T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T02:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2018-02-08T05:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T05:00:33","slug":"saving-the-universe-one-veggie-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/saving-the-universe-one-veggie-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Universe . . . one veggie at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wasn&#8217;t feeling well. In fact, I was downright miserable. In listening to me contemplating whether my family would eat grits or cereal for dinner, my mother took pity on them and baked us a big dish of beefy macaroni and cheese &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the kids&#8217; favorites. As I was serving it up, it occurred to me that they should have something green or leafy on their plates so I quickly tossed some sugar snap peas into the microwave to steam. Placing the ensemble down in front of them was very rewarding &#8211; what can I say? They love food that someone else has prepared and they get that honestly because quite frankly, so do I.<\/p>\n<p>While looking over\u00a0her\u00a0meal, our little red-headed pixie acknowledged the presence of the green peas and I commented that yes, it was important to have some kind of a veggie so this was tonight&#8217;s fare.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for some silliness (as usual), the youngest red-head then commented about how funny it would be if they ONLY ate green peas.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling her eyes, the all-knowing oldest child had to put in her 2 cents worth of wisdom. &#8220;No Spencer, then you would be a Vegenarian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-717 aligncenter\" title=\"Vegenarians - providing hope for sick veggies everywhere!\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sugarsnaps-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both parents had to exit the room at that point\u00a0to contain themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wasn&#8217;t feeling well. In fact, I was downright miserable. In listening to me contemplating whether my family would eat grits or cereal for dinner, my mother took pity on them and baked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}