{"id":661,"date":"2006-12-21T18:12:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T23:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=661"},"modified":"2006-12-21T18:12:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T23:12:49","slug":"on-things-brought-to-you-by-the-letter-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"On Things Brought to You by the Letter "P""},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith DeCandido<\/a> prompted–what are ten things that I like that begin with the letter “P”? Hmm, let’s think.<\/p>\n

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  1. I like pizza<\/b>. I haven’t had any pizza in well-nigh four months, but I do like pizza.<\/li>\n
  2. I especially like pizza with pineapple<\/b> and ham. Pineapple may be the world’s most perfect food, and it’s a yummy pizza topping.<\/li>\n
  3. You know what you used to see in Pizza Hut restaurants back in the day? Pac-Man<\/b> consoles, though more often than not they were Ms. Pac-Man consoles. And they were the weird tabletop consoles, where you had to sit down to play, and then look down at the screen. Pac-Man was awesome. Maybe a little repetitive with him running around, muching pellets and eating ghosts, but it was awesome.<\/li>\n
  4. What did Pac-Men’s pellets taste like? Might they have tasted like peanut butter<\/b>? Life isn’t worth living without peanut butter.<\/li>\n
  5. Nor is life worth living without pretzels<\/b>. I will say this–pretzels have to be hard, and they have to be big. None of these little teensy-weensy pretzels you get in the store, and none of this greasy, salty pretzels like you get at the mall. When you bite a pretzel someone needs to be able to hear it in the next room. That’s just a rule. Unless it’s pretzel bites filled with peanut butter–but that might be too much pretzely\/peanut buttery goodness for most people to handle.<\/li>\n
  6. All this talk of peanut butter and pretzels has me thinking of something else–I also like Peanuts<\/b><\/i>, the long-running Charles Schulz comic strip. Who doesn’t like Charlie Brown and his friends? They’re impossible not to like.<\/li>\n
  7. In a similar vein, it’s also impossible not to like Pooh<\/b>, as in Winnie-the-Pooh bear, created by A.A. Milne in his children’s books.<\/li>\n
  8. Since we’re going literary here, let me mention that I like Philip K. Dick<\/b>, visionary science fiction author of the last century.<\/li>\n
  9. I also like Panama hats<\/b>. No particular reason–I just like the look. That said, I’d probably never wear one–I like baseball caps too much.<\/li>\n
  10. I would, however, wear a pith helmet<\/b>. I’ll probably never go hunting wild game on the African plain, but even so I could pretend, accoutrements and all.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So there we have it–ten things I like that all begin with the letter “P.”<\/p>\n

    If you want to play on your blog or LJ, post a comment and I’ll give you a letter. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Keith DeCandido prompted–what are ten things that I like that begin with the letter “P”? Hmm, let’s think. I like pizza. I haven’t had any pizza in well-nigh four months, but I do like pizza. I especially like pizza with pineapple and ham. Pineapple may be the world’s most perfect food, and it’s a yummyContinue reading “On Things Brought to You by the Letter "P"”<\/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":[104],"tags":[4107],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes","tag-memes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}