{"id":1083,"date":"2005-11-04T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/11\/04\/romantic-noodle\/"},"modified":"2005-11-04T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T17:17:00","slug":"romantic-noodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/04\/romantic-noodle\/","title":{"rendered":"Romantic noodle"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two kinds of people: those who throw things away and those who gather stuff. It’s been no secret at ni.vu.ni.connu that my beau is a gatherer (remember the t-shirt episode<\/a>?). What’s worse, he’s the romantic gatherer type.<\/p>\n

We’re at the restaurant one night this week and we’re waiting for the bill. His small wallet is sitting on the table. It has a plastic window showing his bling (fancy transit pass<\/a>) so I pull it out to look at it.<\/p>\n

A small piece of sea shell falls out of the wallet.<\/p>\n

-« What’s that? »
\n-« Some piece of shell from the beach, I think. I just thought the colours were beautiful. »<\/p>\n

I look at the small, triangular shell. I realize it’s a piece of a mussel.<\/p>\n

-« Baby, this is a mussel shell. You didn’t get this from the beach. »
\n-« I didn’t? »
\n-« No, you got it out of my seafood soup at the fast-food noodle joint last Friday<\/a>. »
\n-« Oh. That’s right. »<\/p>\n

I look at him with my « you silly » air.<\/p>\n

-« But isn’t it beautiful? Look at all the colours! »<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are two kinds of people: those who throw things away and those who gather stuff. It’s been no secret at ni.vu.ni.connu that my beau is a gatherer (remember the t-shirt episode?). What’s worse, he’s the romantic gatherer type. We’re at the restaurant one night this week and we’re waiting for the bill. His small… Continue reading Romantic noodle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}