{"id":27432,"date":"2021-01-02T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T13:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27432"},"modified":"2021-01-01T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T02:47:02","slug":"2021-is-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/02\/2021-is-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Is On Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard clicked through an <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/423263\/\" target=\"_New\" rel=\"noopener\">Instapundit link<\/a> to an article talking about the belief that <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/recipe\/why-do-we-eat-black-eyed-peas-on-new-years-day\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">eating blackeyed peas was good luck on New Year&#8217;s Day<\/a>, so I thought, why not?<\/p>\n<p>We stopped at the grocery store yesterday afternoon, and I saw that dry blackeyed peas should soak overnight and simmer for two hours.  Too much work for good luck and prosperity for a whole year that&#8217;s not even a leap year.<\/p>\n<p>So I went through the stocks at Nogglestead.  As you might know, gentle reader, I have a couple <strike>cases<\/strike> cans on hand <em>just in case<\/em>, and I have been hitting the beans section of the locally owned grocery pretty frequently.  But although I have black beans (in abundance), chili beans, Garbanzo beans, navy beans, and green beans in abundance, I had no blackeyed peas (or green peas untouched by violence either, for that matter).<\/p>\n<p>I did, however, have purple hull peas, which look a lot like blackeyed peas.  Which I only bought one can of because I&#8217;d never had them before.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/purplehulledpeas.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I really hope that I have not done some sort of fortune-inversion by eating these instead.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens in 2021, it&#8217;s on me.  I take responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard clicked through an Instapundit link to an article talking about the belief that eating blackeyed peas was good luck on New Year&#8217;s Day, so I thought, why not? We stopped at the grocery store yesterday afternoon, and I saw that dry blackeyed peas should soak overnight and simmer for two hours. Too much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27435,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27432\/revisions\/27435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}