{"id":2198,"date":"2018-12-19T08:53:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T04:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2018-12-19T08:53:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T04:53:36","slug":"sacred-traditions-should-remain-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"Sacred traditions should remain sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Disease Control has released a new edict this week urging Americans to &#8220;Say No To Raw Dough!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is nothing sacred anymore?<\/p>\n<p>This is the Nanny State taking it one step too far. Not letting us taste even the tiniest bit of raw cookie dough? At Christmas? Licking the spoon&#8230; this is what makes life worth living.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your cellphones and your microwaves; I&#8217;m taking cookie dough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Disease Control has released a new edict this week urging Americans to &#8220;Say No To Raw Dough!&#8221; Is nothing sacred anymore? This is the Nanny State taking it one step too far. Not letting us taste even &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2198\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}