{"id":686,"date":"2011-03-04T04:26:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T09:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=686"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:24","slug":"i-wont-mints-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/03\/i-wont-mints-words\/","title":{"rendered":"I Won\u2019t Mints Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I bought a box of Girl Scout Cookies\u2122 for the first time in years.\u00a0 Thin Mints, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlscouts.org\/program\/gs_cookies\/cookie_faqs.asp#bestselling\">what else<\/a>?\u00a0 So now, midnight-snack time.\u00a0 I open the box, pull apart the (new) foil envelope and grab the first cookie.\u00a0 I can tell at first bite, it&#8217;s not the same item at all.\u00a0 First, it is not <em>thin<\/em> anymore!\u00a0 This version is at least a third thicker than the classic.\u00a0 And it is no longer a chocolate-coated white shortbread cookie &#8212; the new cookie is brown through and through.\u00a0 The classic cookie had a &#8220;GS&#8221; trefoil design baked into the top, but the modern cookie is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Girl_Scout_Thin_Mint_cookies_%28Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA%29.jpg\">nondescript<\/a> save for several pin-prick holes.\u00a0 On the classic cookie,\u00a0 the chocolate coating was so thick you could scrape it off with your teeth &#8212; next to impossible now.<\/p>\n<p>And I dare say, the new Thin Mint is just not that minty.\u00a0 What a travesty.\u00a0 Girl Scouts will be trudging down many a lonely, weed-strewn sidewalk before I buy another box of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I bought a box of Girl Scout Cookies\u2122 for the first time in years.\u00a0 Thin Mints, what else?\u00a0 So now, midnight-snack time.\u00a0 I open the box, pull apart the (new) foil envelope and grab the first cookie.\u00a0 I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/03\/i-wont-mints-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}