{"id":318,"date":"2009-09-04T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-09-04T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T14:51:42","slug":"five-awful-things-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/04\/five-awful-things-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Awful Things to Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=1-9780142410387-0\"><img src=\"http:\/\/content-7.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780142410387\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>The BFG by Roald Dahl<\/b> &#8212; The poor big friendly giant has only one thing to eat in Giant Country: the &#8220;extremely icky-poo vegetable&#8221; called the snozzcumber.  When Sophie takes a nibble it, she can&#8217;t help but spit it out.  &#8220;It tastes like frogskins!  And rotten fish!&#8221;  And you thought spinach was bad.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=62-9780590460750-0\"><img src=\"http:\/\/content-0.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780590460750\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Sixth Grade Secrets by Louis Sachar<\/b> &#8212; Nearly two decades after I first read this book, I can still remember cringing when Laura gulps down a raw egg to try to restore her secret club&#8217;s very sensitive treasures.  And the worst thing is, it doesn&#8217;t even work.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=1-9780375855795-0\"><img src=\"http:\/\/content-5.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780375855795\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Mudville by Kurtis Scaletta<\/b> &#8212; Roy&#8217;s dad is a very creative chef.  Spam manicotti!  Green bean chili!  Spinach surprise!  No wonder Roy is so often tempted to skip dinner.  Think he&#8217;s just being picky?  <a href=\"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/mudville_extras\/recipes.html\">Try them for yourself, then.<\/a>  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=62-9780803734357-0\"><img src=\"http:\/\/content-4.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780803732964\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Models Don&#8217;t Eat Chocolate Cookies by Erin Dionne<\/b> &#8212; I still feel queasy remembering the horrible concoction of ingredients (mayo, vinegar, and tomato juice, just to name a few) that Celeste mixes together in an effort to make a diet drink.  And Celeste felt pretty queasy, too, as her gym teacher&#8217;s shoes can attest!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9780689840944-0\"><img src=\"http:\/\/content-4.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780689840944\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey<\/b> &#8212; The wonder of a fresh apple after days of near starvation is an amazing thing.  But when that&#8217;s all you have to eat for days on end, they might as well be snozzcumbers.  And Hahp doesn&#8217;t hold back in his descriptions of what such a diet does to his digestive system.  I dare you to eat an apple right after finishing this book and not grimace.<\/p>\n<p>All right, readers.  <b>What&#8217;s the worst food you&#8217;ve ever read about?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BFG by Roald Dahl &#8212; The poor big friendly giant has only one thing to eat in Giant Country: the &#8220;extremely icky-poo vegetable&#8221; called the snozzcumber. When Sophie takes a nibble it, she can&#8217;t help but spit it out. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/04\/five-awful-things-to-eat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}