{"id":1630,"date":"2014-08-19T23:49:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T03:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:49:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T03:49:40","slug":"cracking-the-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the case."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"effy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I think people are a lot like chicken eggs.\u00a0 But before I get into that… Let me say this.<\/p>\n

And…. I know.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve said it before.\u00a0 I love chicken eggs.\u00a0 In fact, I eat 2 to 3 every morning for breakfast.\u00a0\u00a0 I bet there a lot of mother chickens who would wring my neck about now.<\/p>\n

But I’m not the only one who likes eggs.\u00a0\u00a0 They seem to be pretty popular the whole world around.\u00a0 In fact, when we were in Amsterdam, they fixed a LOT of dishes with fried eggs right in them.\u00a0 They would put fried eggs on any old sandwich.<\/p>\n

And wouldn’t you know.\u00a0 This whole egg-craze thing isn’t so new.\u00a0\u00a0 People have been eating eggs since there first started to be people, about six million years ago.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing…..\u00a0 why early humans liked to get them.\u00a0 Eggs don’t fight back – you can pick up a dozen just by climbing to where the nest is and picking them up.\u00a0 Go Thor go.<\/p>\n

Folks started wising up about the whole egg deal in years that followed. \u00a0 By about 7000 BC, people in China and India were keeping chickens and eating their eggs, so they didn’t have to go hunting for wild bird eggs anymore.<\/p>\n

The earliest way was to eat eggs was raw… but then sticks were rubbed together, and by golly…. we got fire.\u00a0\u00a0 And, once people began to use fire, about a million years ago, they often roasted eggs in the coals. I might try this at the next campfire.\u00a0\u00a0 It seems like the shells would break… not like the big old Teradactyl Eggs of yesteryear.<\/p>\n

With the invention of pottery, about 5000 BC, boiling eggs gradually became more common.\u00a0 Then people really started cooking with Crisco.\u00a0 Eggs started showing up in all different cooked forms… And\u00a0 also in breads, cakes, and custards.<\/p>\n

And there you have it.\u00a0\u00a0 The incredible, edible egg.<\/p>\n

Now how is that like people…?\u00a0 Well.\u00a0 If you taste the shell of the egg… It is really not that great.\u00a0 Even once you figure out how to crack the thing open and find something very different on the inside… In its raw form… The egg still doesn’t taste that great.<\/p>\n

But give it a little attention… A little effort… You know… A couple tablespoons of butter and some heat… The egg becomes a thing of culinary beauty.\u00a0 A delight.\u00a0 A joy.\u00a0 A treat.<\/p>\n

And so it goes with people.\u00a0 Maybe someone we know.\u00a0 Maybe ourselves.\u00a0 What is on the inside may need a little coaxing before the true treasure can come alive.<\/p>\n

And that is exactly, without exaggeration…an exemplification of our likeness.. To eggs.<\/p>\n

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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.\u00a0 —\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oscar Wilde <\/strong><\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>
\nThe greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart. —\u00a0 Maryanne Williamson <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think people are a lot like chicken eggs.\u00a0 But before I get into that… Let me say this. And…. I know.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve said it before.\u00a0 I love chicken eggs.\u00a0 In fact, I eat 2 to 3 every morning for breakfast.\u00a0\u00a0 I bet there a lot of mother chickens who would wring my neck about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}