{"id":30,"date":"2005-03-18T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/03\/18\/apples-and-orangesactually-just-appl"},"modified":"2006-04-29T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T23:24:54","slug":"apples-and-orangesactually-just-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/03\/18\/apples-and-orangesactually-just-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Apples and Oranges&#8230;Actually, Just Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a68\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a disturbing trend of food-related posts recently, but am opting to ignore it and add yet another food-related post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An award winning friend of mine has recently started a blog of her own and has now publicly\u00a0taken exception to my advocacy of Ambrosia apples.\u00a0 She prefers the disturbingly tart Granny Smiths.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve actually gotten quite a few comments\u00a0(some even\u00a0from real live people that I occasionally interact with when not tied to my computer) about the beauty of Granny Smith apples.\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t understand.\u00a0 They&#8217;re so tart, they&#8217;re\u00a0virtually non-apples.\u00a0 I try not to judge, but I&#8217;m only human.\u00a0 I think Granny Smith apples\u00a0are awful.\u00a0 Unless in the form of\u00a0a baked good.\u00a0 Then they&#8217;re okay.\u00a0 =)\u00a0 There, I&#8217;ve said it.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On a non-food-related note, if you have a minute, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glumbert.com\/media\/dancewhiteboy.html\">this video<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny.\u00a0 If you scrounge up another minute, please tell me what you think of it; I&#8217;m\u00a0interested in finding out if my friend&#8217;s hypothesis is true.\u00a0\u00a0The hypothesis\u00a0involves the extent to which racial differences affect one&#8217;s take\u00a0on the clip.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t expect anything profound however.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cloudy and rainy today.\u00a0 I have to drive to Redondo Beach tonight and attempt to have a life, which will hopefully make up for the fact that I may spend part of the weekend in the office.\u00a0 This fits in nowhere.\u00a0 I just wanted to complain a bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a disturbing trend of food-related posts recently, but am opting to ignore it and add yet another food-related post.\u00a0 An award winning friend of mine has recently started a blog of her own and has now publicly\u00a0taken exception to my advocacy of Ambrosia apples.\u00a0 She prefers the disturbingly tart Granny Smiths.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}