{"id":464,"date":"2005-06-30T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T17:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=464"},"modified":"2005-06-30T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T17:43:04","slug":"on-cream-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"On Cream Soda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Cream soda.  I&#8217;d rather drink this than Coke or Pepsi.  Don&#8217;t ask me why, I&#8217;ve no idea.  It&#8217;s probably the taste.  I like the taste.<\/p>\n<p>Finding good Cream soda in North Carolina is damned difficult.  Most grocery stores don&#8217;t stock it.  Can&#8217;t find the generic stuff at Wal-Mart like I could in Pennsylvania.  Sure, there&#8217;s a few grocery stores that have A&#038;W Cream Soda, but a 20 oz. bottle?  Nope, not finding that.<\/p>\n<p>Today at Kroger, while buying Rice Krispies, I took a walk down the soda aisle and looked at the Big K generic sodas.  There it was, a bottle of Big K Cream Soda.  And it was bright red.<\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not right!  Cream soda should have a yellow-ish cast to it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was just red coloring, thought I to myself.  So, I bought the bottle.<\/p>\n<p>Oh!  It&#8217;s terrible!<\/p>\n<p>It tastes <i>nothing<\/i> like Cream soda.  It tastes like bubblegum.  Bubblegum!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the indignity of it all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Cream soda. I&#8217;d rather drink this than Coke or Pepsi. Don&#8217;t ask me why, I&#8217;ve no idea. It&#8217;s probably the taste. I like the taste. Finding good Cream soda in North Carolina is damned difficult. Most grocery stores don&#8217;t stock it. Can&#8217;t find the generic stuff at Wal-Mart like I could in Pennsylvania.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=464\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Cream Soda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cream-soda","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}