{"id":1564,"date":"2009-03-04T20:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T02:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2009-04-12T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T17:59:08","slug":"bahai-fast-survival-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1564","title":{"rendered":"Baha&#8217;i Fast Survival Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Includes:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>freeze-dried food and energy bars (for waking up too late to cook breakfast\/emergency hunger at sunset)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>an alarm with built-in sunrise and sunset times, which beeps as you get closer to the deadline<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>a clothespin for your nose (for while you cook or have to be around yummy smelling food)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>a prayer book<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>extra-strength toothbrush, toothpaste, and mouthwash<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>sleeping mask for those daytime naps<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>energy drink (for the after-dinner food coma)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>instructional manual with list of best foods to eat during the Fast, how to explain to your friends that Fasting is medically healthy for most people, and activities one can engage in besides eating (sudoku, knitting, origami, cross-stitching, organizing paperclips, etc)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Only $19.95!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This little idea came out of a conversation I had with a <a href=\"http:\/\/fresita.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">friend<\/a> about cooking dinner during the Fast.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the last few hours which are the hardest, as you prepare food and anticipate the moment that you will eat and drink again.\u00c2\u00a0 I tend to get more creative during this time&#8230;I want to eat really good food!\u00c2\u00a0 In the last few days I have made: homemade spaghetti (none of that canned stuff), burgers, mashed potatoes, pineapple meatballs, scalloped potatoes, Persian rice, and a few other random things that I can&#8217;t remember.<\/p>\n<p>The Fast is a spiritual time, but you DO have to keep a sense of humor about it. :-)\u00c2\u00a0 I was going to put a picture of food to illustrate this post, but decided to be kind.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, it is time for my nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Includes: freeze-dried food and energy bars (for waking up too late to cook breakfast\/emergency hunger at sunset) an alarm with built-in sunrise and sunset times, which beeps as you get closer to the deadline a clothespin for your nose (for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}