{"id":642,"date":"2006-10-04T21:13:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T01:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2007-03-02T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T18:36:56","slug":"altoid-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Altoid update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=634\">this post<\/a>, you know that I&#8217;m upset because evil corporate bean-counters decided it was too expensive to keep putting peppermint oil in Altoids; now they&#8217;re just sugar and artificial flavor. I used to rely on Altoids for a hit of peppermint oil to soothe my vocal chords when conducting worship, and this past Sunday, I felt bereft without my peppermint-oil Altoids.<\/p>\n<p>We were in a nearby supermarket tonight, and lo and behold they still had the old-fashioned peppermint-oil Altoids in most of the racks of candy beside the check-out lines. I bought seventeen tins, enough for a two-year&#8217;s supply if I limit myself to using them when I preach.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m worried that I may have missed some of the check-out lines. I&#8217;ll have to go back and see if I can buy still more of the old-fashioned Altoids. And OK, yes, maybe I&#8217;m a little obsessed about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read this post, you know that I&#8217;m upset because evil corporate bean-counters decided it was too expensive to keep putting peppermint oil in Altoids; now they&#8217;re just sugar and artificial flavor. I used to rely on Altoids for a hit of peppermint oil to soothe my vocal chords when conducting worship, and this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}