{"id":195,"date":"2020-05-08T15:40:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=195"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:32:34","slug":"goldfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Goldfish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5-11-2011-C-13-1030x1030.jpg\" alt=\"Used to describe an anecdote about my grandfather enjoying his after-lunch snack of ice cream and canned peaches.\" class=\"wp-image-196\" width=\"843\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5-11-2011-C-13-1030x1030.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5-11-2011-C-13-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5-11-2011-C-13-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5-11-2011-C-13-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5-11-2011-C-13-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5-11-2011-C-13-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5-11-2011-C-13-705x705.jpg 705w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5-11-2011-C-13.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><figcaption><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-col-6786-a-1-color\">No Koi were harmed in the making of this blog post.<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I saw this image and it, strangely, reminded me of my grandfather. That shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise in its own, but what it did was bring me back to 40 years (or so) ago with the family sitting in my grandparent&#8217;s backyard having a bit of dessert after lunch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a small bowl of vanilla ice cream and some canned peaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My grandfather looked and said, &#8220;Oh, goldfish. I like goldfish.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was horrified. And then I figured out the joke. He was a simple man, my grandfather, but he did like a few things that I can remember: boiled eggs in an egg cup, almond chicken at the local Chinese restaurant, a decent cup of tea&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, of course, goldfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this image and it, strangely, reminded me of my grandfather. That shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise in its own, but what it did was bring me back to 40 years (or so) ago with the family sitting in my grandparent&#8217;s backyard having a bit of dessert after lunch. It was a small bowl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}