{"id":1240,"date":"2011-07-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:42:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:42:32","slug":"cacophony-of-munching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Cacophony of Munching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">I have always liked the word, &#8220;cacophony.&#8221; It is so descriptive!  The dictionary definition is, &#8220;harsh discordance of sound; dissonance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My mother-in-law is visiting this week. Sweet old lady, but she has absolutely no table manners at all. And I&#8217;m afraid that when my partner spends time with her, his table manners fly out the window.  This is what drives me most crazy about my M-I-L: her total lack of table manners. Honestly, I have heard pigs at a trough sound less noisy when eating.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, another visit in the books. We survived. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, as you read this, my partner is taking his Mom back to her home in da &#8216;burgh. I look forward to a peaceful weekend. I&#8217;m afraid, though, when my partner returns on Sunday, I will have to retrain table manners.  Oh well, this happens every year. I&#8217;m not surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  eat with utensils and chew with your mouth closed.  Please!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always liked the word, &#8220;cacophony.&#8221; It is so descriptive! The dictionary definition is, &#8220;harsh discordance of sound; dissonance.&#8221; My mother-in-law is visiting this week. Sweet old lady, but she has absolutely no table manners at all. And I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}