{"id":1625,"date":"2009-07-08T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T22:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2009-07-08T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T22:44:02","slug":"give-peas-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/give-peas-a-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Peas a Chance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like peas. Especially raw, popped right out of the pod, fresh off the stalk.<\/p>\n<p>And I remember years ago when we were house-sitting Marion and Berneice Schrock&#8217;s house in Hubbard, Oregon. They&#8217;d told us to help ourselves to stuff in the freezer. I fear we launched a Bigger Than We Should Have assault on their stash of frozen peas-and-baby-onions. Wow, those were delicious!<\/p>\n<p>I also like split pea soup, especially with bacon and\/or ham in it.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are peas delicious in so many settings, they&#8217;re alleged to have nutritional benefits for your bones and cardiovascular system and who knows what else.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diethealthclub.com\/blog\/diet-profile\/peas-nutritional-information-and-health-of-teeth.html\">Peas Nutritional Information And Health Of Teeth<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nutrition.about.com\/od\/fruitsandvegetables\/p\/peas.htm\">Nutrition Information for Peas<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/health.learninginfo.org\/peas.htm\">Peas Nutrition Facts<\/a><\/ul>\n<p>So, parents, be good parents and train your children early to eat these little round marvels. If you start early enough, you&#8217;ll have unusual children &#8212; who like peas. (And you might learn to like them as well.)<\/p>\n<p>I thought I coined &#8220;Give peas a chance&#8221; as a unique, lightly-mocking spin-off of &#8220;give peace a chance.&#8221; Google dissuaded me of that self-inflicted, self-aggrandizing notion. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p>Being of the suspicious, determined-not-to-be-gullible sort, I wonder if this image has been photoshopped:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3585\/3312496672_15db50fb84.jpg\" alt=\"Give peas a chance...in the UK\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like peas. Especially raw, popped right out of the pod, fresh off the stalk. And I remember years ago when we were house-sitting Marion and Berneice Schrock&#8217;s house in Hubbard, Oregon. They&#8217;d told us to help ourselves to stuff in the freezer. I fear we launched a Bigger Than We Should Have assault on &#8230; <a title=\"Give Peas a Chance!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/give-peas-a-chance\/\" aria-label=\"More on Give Peas a Chance!\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[893,24],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-nutrition","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-qd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}