{"id":6689,"date":"2021-01-19T07:39:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2021-01-19T07:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T15:39:50","slug":"pork-and-beans-or-beans-and-pork-for-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/pork-and-beans-or-beans-and-pork-for-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Pork and Beans or Beans and Pork For Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6689\" data-postid=\"6689\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6689 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>While serving as a combat Marine in Korea, my father told me there were two main meals on the line: pork and beans and beans and pork and there were two different labels for the same identical meal. You could write a novel in that insanity and Joseph Heller already did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was with this Catch 22-styled military anecdote in mind that I served him one of his favorite meals, pork and beans or beans and pork by slicing up some Vienna sausages into a pot of baked beans. I also added some onions and sprinkled it lightly with black pepper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I must say it was a first for me to \u201ccook\u201d with Vienna sausages and my hands trembled a bit as I handled the pink, greasy tubes. MY GOD! Was I actually helping kill my 90-year old father? Would DHS report me if the word got out, like in this post?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a time, I laughed as I heated the concoction and bubbled and boiled its toil and cauldron. I doubt even Macbeth&#8217;s witches would have brewed up something so evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, the Old Man wanted a favorite dish and I would prepare it the best I could and hope the headlines wouldn&#8217;t report a terrible death by methane asphyxiation or explosion. We had some concern about that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While serving as a combat Marine in Korea, my father told me there were two main meals on the line: pork and beans and beans and pork and there were two different labels for the same identical meal. You could write a novel in that insanity and Joseph Heller already did. It was with this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6691,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions\/6691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}