{"id":5670,"date":"2011-03-07T21:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T02:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2011-03-07T21:48:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T02:48:40","slug":"on-late-night-snacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5670","title":{"rendered":"On Late Night Snacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-template name=\"qotd\" id=\"2400\" lang=\"en_LJ\" \/>In my early twenties, I discovered the joys of consuming food late at night.  I thought nothing of going to Barnes &#038; Noble at ten o&#8217;clock at night, ordering something heavily caffeinated, consuming it, then crashing an hour and a half later.  Or of making a run to Taco Bell at 1:30 in the morning because I <i>really<\/i> needed a Gordita combo.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered, about the time I turned thirty, that I just couldn&#8217;t <i>do<\/i> that any more.<\/p>\n<p>Caffeine after about seven makes it impossible for me to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Taco Bell, under virtually <i>any<\/i> circumstance, sets my stomach on edge for a day and a half.  (Antacid tablets after <i>and<\/i> before seem to keep the worst excesses of Taco Bell at bay.)<\/p>\n<p>But what if I really <i>do<\/i> need a late night snack?  What if peckishness overtakes me in the still hours of the night?<\/p>\n<p>Stauffer&#8217;s Animal Crackers.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re lightweight.  They&#8217;re tasty.  No caffiene.  And to the stomach they&#8217;re inoffensive.<\/p>\n<p>And apple juice.  If I need something to drink, late at night?  Apple juice all the way. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not the most interesting late night snack.  But it does for me, and that&#8217;s all that really matters. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my early twenties, I discovered the joys of consuming food late at night. I thought nothing of going to Barnes &#038; Noble at ten o&#8217;clock at night, ordering something heavily caffeinated, consuming it, then crashing an hour and a half later. Or of making a run to Taco Bell at 1:30 in the morning<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5670\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Late Night Snacks&#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":[52],"tags":[4093],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","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=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}