{"id":10817,"date":"2013-05-25T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancullen.net\/stories\/?p=178"},"modified":"2013-05-25T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T12:21:07","slug":"eating-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/2013\/05\/25\/eating-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And we ALL have our own rigidities without knowing it. I recall eating breakfast in a hotel in Chicago with a colleague who watched me eat my toast in ABSOLUTE horror. I could see the horror in his face. I didn&#8217;t know what it meant.. . the TOAST was good! Finally he said, &#8222;What is the matter with you, haven&#8217;t you got any table manners of ANY sort?&#8220; I said, &#8222;Why do you ask?&#8220; &#8222;You buttered that toast, broke it in two, and now you are eating half of it.&#8220; I said, &#8222;That&#8217;s right &#8230; it tastes very good.&#8220; He said, &#8222;The PROPER way is you CUT your slice of toast in four parts and you pick each up separately and eat it.&#8220; I asked him why and he said, &#8222;because that&#8217;s the only WAY to eat toast!&#8220; So the next morning I ate my toast by the WHOLE toast without breaking it in half. He finally learned to eat toast comfortably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we ALL have our own rigidities without knowing it. I recall eating breakfast in a hotel in Chicago with a colleague who watched me eat my toast in ABSOLUTE horror. I could see the horror in his face. I didn&#8217;t know what it meant.. . the TOAST was good! Finally he said, &#8222;What is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}