{"id":2288,"date":"2011-11-18T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T21:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2011-11-18T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T22:49:30","slug":"progress-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/progress-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress at Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <strong>Con<\/strong>gress, anyway. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is pretty funny.<\/p>\n<p>And telling.<\/p>\n<p>Of how the language continues to suffer twisting.<\/p>\n<p>And of how words yield so easily to&#8230;ah&#8230;something.<\/p>\n<p>Like vegetables. <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/11\/18\/us-usa-lunch-idUSTRE7AH00020111118\">House protects pizza as a vegetable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.<\/p>\n<p>The scuttled changes, which would have stripped pizza&#8217;s status as a vegetable [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The change would have required pizza to have at least a half-cup of tomato paste to qualify as a vegetable serving. Current rules, which likely will remain in place, require just two tablespoons of tomato paste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So&#8230;what does it take to make pizza qualify as dairy?<\/p>\n<p>Or meat?<\/p>\n<p>Or grain?<\/p>\n<p>Or fruit?<\/p>\n<p>Using government standards and definitions, we could <strong>just call a pizza a square meal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, you say pizza is round?<\/p>\n<p>Really. Says who?<\/p>\n<p>(If you say pizza is round, I suppose you also deny its vegetablehood.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Pizza is round. Ha! How quaint.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PS: No politics were consumed in the production of this post.<\/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>Well, Congress, anyway. \ud83d\ude44 Still, this is pretty funny. And telling. Of how the language continues to suffer twisting. And of how words yield so easily to&#8230;ah&#8230;something. Like vegetables.<!-- 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":[389,395,14,8],"tags":[502,644],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-dumb-and-such","category-health","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-laws"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-AU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}