{"id":5400,"date":"2018-10-14T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T22:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2018-11-15T13:21:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T00:21:31","slug":"rubicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/rubicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5390 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Silk-Anniversary.jpg?resize=525%2C510\" width=\"525\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have a number of reputations to uphold, among them a prodigious appetite for saturated fats. Cheesecake and doughnuts have been a staple for a large part of my life, and I can only presume that obesity and diabetes have been kept at bay only by the love of a <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?s=lovely+wife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good woman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/tag\/running\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">semi-regular exercise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A recent research trip presented my hungry eye with &#8216;cream choc donut[s]&#8217;, a big-city steal at $2.50 per. Seeing my longing look at it, <strong>The Lovely Wife<\/strong> suggested I stop being dramatic and just buy it. The thing was, I knew that just two mouthfuls of one of those triple-threats would be enough \u2014 but since a partly-eaten doughnut is anathema to any self-respecting Samoan, I would <strong>have<\/strong> to eat the rest of it.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at her and <del><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sadly told her that those days were over<\/span><\/del> lied that I was not in the mood for doughnuts. She still saw my final melancholic look at those doughnuts, but being the lovely wife that she is, she said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The last few years, the consumption of such delicacies has resulted in less of the comforting &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/good-sick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good sick<\/a>&#8216;, and more of the just plain sick feeling. I suppose it was the tail end of a longer transition period* where, once-upon-a-takeaways, I could eat whatever I wanted, and nowadays I mostly\/sometimes\/less-often-than-I-really-should watch what I eat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve passed a gastronomical milestone in this life.\u00a0It&#8217;s just a sign of age. A constant of life is change, and change is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Time, perhaps, for a new food-oriented reputation.<\/p>\n<p>* The first sign would&#8217;ve been when\u00a0<strong>The Boy<\/strong>, then eight years old, began to out-eat me at most meals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of reputations to uphold, among them a prodigious appetite for saturated fats. Cheesecake and doughnuts have been a staple for a large part of my life, and I can only presume that obesity and diabetes have been kept at bay only by the love of a good woman and semi-regular exercise. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/rubicon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rubicon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[315,1264],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-the-boy","tag-the-lovely-wife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}