{"id":3007,"date":"2015-02-17T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2015-02-18T06:16:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:16:42","slug":"3007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3007","title":{"rendered":"Ear Cheese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dogpigmouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3008\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dogpigmouse.jpg\" alt=\"dogpigmouse\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dogpigmouse.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dogpigmouse-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t say cheese, what can you say?<\/p>\n<p>I had to go to the grocery today, for just a few items.\u00a0 The part of the Grand Cayman Island where we stay, has only one small grocery.\u00a0 They do a pretty good job, but it is not a Mega-Krogers.\u00a0 Not even close.<\/p>\n<p>So.\u00a0 This afternoon I went in.\u00a0 I needed dinner napkins, for one, and could not find any. So I asked the lady at the counter.\u00a0 She led me to the paper towels.\u00a0 That was okay.\u00a0 It would work.<\/p>\n<p>Next on the list&#8230; cough drops or throat lozenges.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I should give a little more information about the lady at the counter.\u00a0 I was having a hard time understanding her&#8230; and she in turn&#8230; was having a difficult time understanding me.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t a hearing problem.\u00a0 Rather, it appeared to be a language barrier. \u00a0 Back to Aisle Five.\u00a0 I asked for Cough Drops or Throat Lozenges.\u00a0\u00a0 She stared at me blankly, so I made a coughing noise and put my hand up to my mouth.\u00a0 She handed me Baby Aspirin.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have the heart to put it back.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I wanted some Ear Buds.\u00a0 I brought some nice head phones along with me&#8230;.. but they are scrunching my glasses into the sides of my head.\u00a0 So, I asked the lady about the ear buds, and made kind of a dancing move.\u00a0 She took me to the refrigerated cheese section.\u00a0\u00a0 I can understand the first two things going wrong&#8230; but this last item went completely awry.\u00a0 What could this possibly mean?<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; for now it means we have a lot of cheddar cheese on hand.<br \/>\nMore importantly&#8230; I think it means.. &#8230;.. The mysteries of the universe abound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/watershed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3012\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/watershed.jpg\" alt=\"watershed\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/watershed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/watershed-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t say cheese, what can you say? I had to go to the grocery today, for just a few items.\u00a0 The part of the Grand Cayman Island where we stay, has only one small grocery.\u00a0 They do a pretty good job, but it is not a Mega-Krogers.\u00a0 Not even close. So.\u00a0 This afternoon [&hellip;]<\/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-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","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=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}