{"id":1371,"date":"2018-10-20T20:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2018-10-20T20:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T20:33:22","slug":"rock-lobster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2018\/10\/20\/rock-lobster\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Lobster"},"content":{"rendered":"

This list is written on a crumpled Post-It note.<\/p>\n

I like it. Crisp, business-like, no nonsense. Actually scrunched up to be discarded when it had served its purpose.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A parent, with young children.<\/p>\n

Tuna. Fine. Rock salt\u2014not the sea flakes of someone who is really into cooking, but commendable. Busy parent probably has no time for salting her chicken the night before.<\/p>\n

Baking powder. Bicarb and eggs. I see a cake in her children’s future.<\/p>\n

Shapes… what kind of shapes? Family shorthand\u2014fine.<\/p>\n

No particular order, this; probably written down as the thoughts occurred, or as she surveyed her organized if slightly untidy kitchen (this is not a judgement: kitchens are always untidy if there are children in the house. Unless you’re some kind of psychopath).<\/p>\n

Washing up liquid\u2014any old brand will do, I guess. Suckies\u2014those delicious yogurty things that it is actually against the law to eat if you’re over the age of about 7.<\/p>\n

Sesame chicken… mmm, I’m liking this. Mayo, sure. Chicken again\u2014wait, what’s this? A filing breakdown? Or maybe they do really like chicken.<\/p>\n

Bananas, blue milk (of course\u2014children again) and croissants for Sunday morning breakfast. Perhaps with home-made jam? We know she bakes, so perhaps.<\/p>\n

Antibac wipes. Children, sure; fastidious, definitely\u2014even if this list weren’t a dead giveaway.<\/p>\n

Fabric softener, and then, way out on the right-hand side, almost less than an afterthought, ‘unstoppables<\/a>‘. I had to look these up.<\/p>\n

Not just children, but possibly very small, somewhat pungent<\/em> children as well.<\/p>\n

Whoever you are, I hope they enjoyed the sesame chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This list is written on a crumpled Post-It note. I like it. Crisp, business-like, no nonsense. Actually scrunched up to be discarded when it had served its purpose. A parent, with young children. Tuna. Fine. Rock salt\u2014not the sea flakes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[364,365,360,366,361],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopping-lists","tag-chicken","tag-children","tag-list","tag-pungent","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}