{"id":309,"date":"2014-06-11T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-06-11T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:48:12","slug":"things-that-make-me-go-blech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/things-that-make-me-go-blech\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that make me go blech."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often say that I have no triggers and nothing makes me squeamish.<\/p>\n<p>But that's a bloody lie.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what makes me squeamish: \u00a0spoiled food.<\/p>\n<p>I can't for the life of me open an old container of food if I know there is a strong possibility that there is mould in it. Or if it might smell bad, even to my limited sense of smell. I will just throw the container out to avoid that.<\/p>\n<p>Right now there is a container of old coleslaw that someone left here a few weeks ago. My eyes go fuzzy every time I spot it because I <em>know<\/em> that it has gone bad and the container is see-through. I don't want to see that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often say that I have no triggers and nothing makes me squeamish. But that&#8217;s a bloody lie. Here is what makes me squeamish: \u00a0spoiled food. I can&#8217;t for the life of me open an old container of food if I know there is a strong possibility that there is mould in it. Or if it might smell bad, even to my limited sense of smell. I will just throw the container out to avoid that. Right now there is a container of old coleslaw that someone left here a few weeks ago. My eyes go fuzzy every time I &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Things that make me go blech.\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/things-that-make-me-go-blech\/#more-309\" aria-label=\"Read more about Things that make me go blech.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[2,115,91],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-beys-life","tag-ew","tag-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-4Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":449,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/fan-mail-wednesday-picture-post-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":309,"position":0},"title":"Fan Mail Wednesday &#8211; picture-post edition.","author":"Bey","date":"July 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to another round of fan mail Wednesday! 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