{"id":11835,"date":"2011-08-03T07:07:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T11:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11835"},"modified":"2011-08-02T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:30:47","slug":"listen-to-the-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11835","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bananas-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Accusatory Bananas\" title=\"Accusatory Bananas\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11836\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bananas-300x208.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bananas-150x104.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bananas.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You guys, I heart <a href=\"http:\/\/thebloggess.com\/\">The Bloggess<\/a> so much.<\/p>\n<p>She recently saw a lifehack about lightly tracing words on banana peels with a toothpick; over several hours the tracing darkens and the words appear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The person writing the tip suggested writing sweet notes for your kids on their bananas.  I promptly went and traced notes on all of our bananas and then immediately forgot about it, until the next day when I heard Victor screaming about how the bananas were talking to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She details the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/thebloggess.com\/2011\/08\/listen-to-the-bananas\/\">here<\/a> and also solicits readers&#8217; suggestions for paranoid-sounding things to write on bananas at the grocery store.  There are well over 400 comments so far, with some of my favorites being:<\/p>\n<p>that shirt? really?<br \/>\nThe monkeys scare me.<br \/>\nNo, I\u2019m not happy to see you.<br \/>\nYou\u2019re being followed. NO! Don\u2019t look!<br \/>\nThis banana intentionally left blank.<br \/>\nFuck Apples.<\/p>\n<p>I can foresee a news item about mysterious banana notes popping up in grocery stores worldwide in the very near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You guys, I heart The Bloggess so much. She recently saw a lifehack about lightly tracing words on banana peels with a toothpick; over several hours the tracing darkens and the words appear. The person writing the tip suggested writing sweet notes for your kids on their bananas. I promptly went and traced notes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11835"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11846,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835\/revisions\/11846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}