{"id":3707,"date":"2014-09-08T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2014-09-08T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:42:34","slug":"speculoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=3707","title":{"rendered":"Speculoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Hey, don\u2019t get me wrong.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I love Trader Joe\u2019s as much as the next guy.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Ok, maybe not QUITE as much as those of you who would be willing to skin it and wear a Trader Joe\u2019s shrug around town.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">(\u201cIt rubs the lotion on its skin!)<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">But who DOESN\u2019T love liver and fava beans served with a nice bottle of their Two Buck Chuck Chianti?!? <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Sllllewllllssssllelelww. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">What?<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Why are you looking at me like that??<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Did those <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Silence of the Lambs<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"> references veer into Creep Factor Five Thousand Territory??!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Well you shouldn\u2019t be looking at me like that because YOU\u2019RE the one who started it!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">With your good bag and cheap shoes, Clarice.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I?<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I was NOT trying to go there.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Instead, I was simply trying to say that Trader Joe\u2019s \u201ccrisp, caramelized cinnamon spiced Belgian cookies\u201d are delish.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">DELISH!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">But their name?<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Speculoos?!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Awful.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Speculoos\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">I\u2019ll just let that sink in for a sec.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Speculoos\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Now you see it, don\u2019t you?<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">And in the three times I\u2019ve typed \u201cSpeculoos\u201d (now four) in this blog, the system has tried three (now four) times to change it to \u201cSpeculums.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">I rest my case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Two final words: Loose cups.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><em>Your anagrams are showing, Doctor.<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">YOU STARTED IT!!!<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, don\u2019t get me wrong.\u00a0 I love Trader Joe\u2019s as much as the next guy.\u00a0 Ok, maybe not QUITE as much as those of you who would be willing to skin it and wear a Trader Joe\u2019s shrug around town.\u00a0 (\u201cIt rubs the lotion on its skin!)\u00a0 But who DOESN\u2019T love liver and fava beans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[246,245,242,247,243,244],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}