{"id":4368,"date":"2004-03-03T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/the-cheese-does-not-wear-me\/"},"modified":"2004-03-03T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T20:06:00","slug":"the-cheese-does-not-wear-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/the-cheese-does-not-wear-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The cheese does not wear me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She: &#8220;So I&#8217;m going to this wine and cheese party on Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;That&#8217;s rather unfortunate considering you&#8217;re abstaining from alcohol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;Yes it is.  I thought I&#8217;d take grape juice or whatever and drink what I wanted while they were having wine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Why stop there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Why not bring your own cheese, too?  I suggest Kraft American singles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;Wha-at? No, I can&#8217;t do that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Sure you can &#8212; just play it straight.  Bring in your slices for the host and offer to arrange them in a nice fan pattern.  Offer sage comments on how Kraft singles bring out the subtle undertones of the grape juice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;But my friends know I&#8217;m a cheese snob! I&#8217;d never get away with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;In that case, take Cheese Whiz&#8230;up the kitch factor as high as it&#8217;ll go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;I could offer to squirt Cheese Whiz onto crackers, or just eat it straigt from the can. Yeah, this has possibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Now you&#8217;re being silly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She: &#8220;So I&#8217;m going to this wine and cheese party on Saturday.&#8221; Me: &#8220;That&#8217;s rather unfortunate considering you&#8217;re abstaining from alcohol.&#8221; She: &#8220;Yes it is. I thought I&#8217;d take grape juice or whatever and drink what I wanted while they were having wine.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Why stop there?&#8221; She: &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; Me: &#8220;Why not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}