{"id":200240,"date":"2021-06-01T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/01\/things-that-would-have-gotten-my-mom-to-disown-me\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:56:00","slug":"things-that-would-have-gotten-my-mom-to-disown-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/01\/things-that-would-have-gotten-my-mom-to-disown-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Things That Would Have Gotten My Mom to Disown Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Yku8dBm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Yku8dBm.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>I was making a cup of coffee with a Kuerig machine, and the coffee I grabbed was a Newman&#8217;s own Pod.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to the person next to me,and said, &#8220;I turned to the person next to me, and said, &#8220;Paul Newman started this company.  I think that he had another line of work before he started making organic food.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/BZnEkZm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/BZnEkZm.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>My mom, whose favorite movie was Long Hot Summer, or as she put it, &#8220;Long Hot Summer with Paul Newman \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b>YUM<\/b>!!!&#8221; would not have been amused by that joke. <\/p>\n<p>She probably would not have disowned me permanently, but she would have been very unamused by this bon mot.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly she was unamused when her cousin at a political event, was asked to point out a politician&#8217;s wife, said cousin said, &#8220;She&#8217;s standing next to the tall handsome man with the striking blue eyes,&#8221; and the person she was pointing the woman out to said, &#8220;You mean that she is standing next to Paul Newman?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My mom though that not recognizing Paul Newman was taking politics <b>WAY<\/b> too far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was making a cup of coffee with a Kuerig machine, and the coffee I grabbed was a Newman&#8217;s own Pod. I turned to the person next to me,and said, &#8220;I turned to the person next to me, and said, &#8220;Paul Newman started this company. I think that he had another line of work before &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[993,976,1012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-family","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}