Another day older and deeper in debt. Well that’s partially true, today begins week five of Lent in which I have given up alcohol and sweets and to date have dropped five pounds. I told this to my friend and she said, “Wow, you must drink a lot!” And I said, “Uh, no, I don’t drink a lot. It’s more than the alcohol, it’s what it entails. A vodka tonic at night on the porch requires some snack as I can’t drink without food in my body. Then it leads to dinner and by that time I’m much hungrier than I would have been if I hadn’t had the drink. So it’s alcohol and food that has led to my body expanding one to two dress sizes in the last two years.”<\/p>\n
She ate an entire can of tuna while I was telling her this and smugly said, “Well I only have about two or three glasses of wine total a week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another day older and deeper in debt. Well that’s partially true, today begins week five of Lent in which I have given up alcohol and sweets and to date have dropped five pounds. I told this to my friend and she said, “Wow, you must drink a lot!” And I said, “Uh, no, I don’t drink a lot. It’s more than the alcohol, it’s what it entails. A vodka tonic at night on the porch… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1Ri","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}