{"id":249,"date":"2009-01-29T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T18:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-01-29T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T18:13:43","slug":"temptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/2009\/01\/29\/temptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Temptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wins every time, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n

I am in week four of trying to behave when it comes to eating habits but damn it – temptation wins out every<\/em> time. Did I really need<\/em> the Caramello bar that I just inhaled??? Did I even want <\/em>it??? NO, but hey – its to help out the youth basketball league so who can say “No”???<\/p>\n

And then there’s that cute little Girl Scout who rang the doorbell that I ordered three<\/em> boxes of cookies from. Could I have ordered one or two? Of course but they, too, were for a good cause so why not.<\/p>\n

And could I help it when an hour later, two more Girl Scouts showed up on my doorstep selling cookies, that I had to buy even more? “You’re the second ones to ring my bell today,” I said, “so I’m only going to buy one more box.” “Okay,” they said, “thank you.” Then I proceeded to order two<\/em> more boxes because, hey, they were out their on this bitter cold winter day just trying to raise money for a good cause.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I have not yet reached this point:<\/p>\n

\"Fat<\/p>\n

Poor Winston! (no, that’s not my cat but at the rate Shadow’s going, he best learn to beat temptation, too!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wins every time, doesn’t it? I am in week four of trying to behave when it comes to eating habits but damn it – temptation wins out every time. Did I really need the Caramello bar that I just inhaled??? Did I even want it??? NO, but hey – its to help out the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}