{"id":48,"date":"2008-01-18T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbw.webfactional.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-01-18T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:48:00","slug":"whole-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/whole-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"whole indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/vertical_green100w-712357.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/vertical_green100w-712353.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Whole Foods is a frightening place.  Not only is it enormous, it lulls you into thinking that NOW is the time to buy pears, crab legs, and a set of rechargeable batteries.  At least, that is what I was holding when I got out of there, and that is how they parted me with over $40.  I&#8217;ll admit I also bought pumpkin ravioli and crab bisque, but who in the crap *wouldn&#8217;t* buy pumpkin ravioli and crab bisque, given the opportunity?<\/p>\n<p>I saw lots of folks I knew there, colleagues and friends, and I overheard ten conversations as I wandered the many aisles.  Everyone, to a person, was talking about the same thing: the prices.  That store is insanely expensive, and yet, all of us had arms and baskets full of *stuff*, glossy-eyed with our treasure troves, sticky from the strawberry samples, slowly wandering and filled with awe that so metropolitan a place could be found in our little town.<\/p>\n<p>Trader Joe&#8217;s is next door, where I bought a week&#8217;s worth of staples for about $20.  I know I&#8217;ll still spend the bulk of my time at Joe&#8217;s, but whenever I need to buy petrale sole stuffed with crab and shrimp, dolmas, and an organic, free trade cotton sweater all at the same time, I&#8217;m afraid that Whole Foods will once again tempt me inside.<\/p>\n<p>I now need to be alone with my pumpkin ravioli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Foods is a frightening place. Not only is it enormous, it lulls you into thinking that NOW is the time to buy pears, crab legs, and a set of rechargeable batteries. At least, that is what I was holding when I got out of there, and that is how they parted me with over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}