{"id":30918,"date":"2017-07-20T13:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30918"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:27:09","slug":"lollipopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30918","title":{"rendered":"Lollipopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even now, an adult in his forties, when I go to the bank, I&#8217;ll pick up a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/prompts\/lollipop\/\">lollipop<\/a>.  The circular ones, the cheap ones, in the plastic wrapper, with the raised edge and center.  A green one.  Always a green one.  No other color will do.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because I like the taste of lime?  I assume the green lollipops are lime.  Come to think of it, I don&#8217;t really know.  I certainly do like the taste of lime.  Give me a key lime pie!  Give me Lime Kool-Aid!  Give me a green lollipop!<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason &#8212; the color, the flavor &#8212; I peel off the wrapping, pop it in my mouth, let it just dissolve there, and then munch down on whatever&#8217;s left, leaving only the tightly wrapped paper stick in my mouth with.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m doing lollipops wrong, but if I&#8217;m doing them wrong, then I don&#8217;t want to be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even now, an adult in his forties, when I go to the bank, I&#8217;ll pick up a lollipop. The circular ones, the cheap ones, in the plastic wrapper, with the raised edge and center. A green one. Always a green one. No other color will do. Is it because I like the taste of lime?<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30918\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Lollipopping&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[4030],"class_list":["post-30918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asides","tag-the-daily-post","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}