{"id":3992,"date":"2018-10-26T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:33","slug":"pumpkin-spice-up-your-life-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Spice Up Your Life&#8230;Or Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Isaac Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moving rapidly through my third year as an international student in the states, many of the culinary mysteries I first encountered have been resolved. I understand the mechanics of the S\u2019more, the texture of a Hushpuppy, the dairy percentage in Cool Whip. However, each year as the leaves begin to turn, I know that once again I will meet my spiced foe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two beautiful festive ingredients \u2013 pumpkin and sugar \u2013 unite in an unparalleled manifestation of Halloween spirit: How did they go so wrong? Spices are perfect at this time of year. The warmth of cinnamon and ginger make ideal autumn companions as temperatures drop. A little sugar lift is much needed as days shorten and mornings become increasingly dark. And the pumpkin; a brilliantly vibrant root vegetable in season when little else is. In a process likened to reverse alchemy these pure and delicious ingredients are transformed into the inedible Pumpkin Spice products that deck supermarket shelves. Somehow Pumpkin Spice is a growing phenomenon, with revenues reaching $361 million in 2011. It is in these dark times that we must disregard flashy pumpkin propaganda, pour out trendy pumpkin spiced lattes, and accept that this was all a huge mistake. Take action and make change happen, boycott the vile Pumpkin Spice and let\u2019s turn those innocent pumpkins into tasty pies instead.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Isaac Davis Moving rapidly through my third year as an international student in the states, many of the culinary mysteries I first encountered have been resolved. I understand the mechanics of the S\u2019more, the texture of a Hushpuppy, the dairy percentage in Cool Whip. However, each year as the leaves begin to turn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-wellness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pumpkin-spice-latte-3750036_960_720.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}