{"id":5383,"date":"2012-08-16T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:28:50","slug":"culture-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5383","title":{"rendered":"Culture Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what I posted for &#8220;Culture&#8221; in the August photography challenge. &nbsp;I am fascinated by grocery carts and cupboards. &nbsp;Fortunately my husband does the food shopping or I would have been in jail &nbsp;long ago for voyeurism. <\/p>\n<p>That being said, I would never open another person&#8217;s cupboard or medicine cabinet without permission. &nbsp;I was shocked one day years ago when I read an article in the paper about people who actually peep into people&#8217;s medicine cabinets during a bathroom visit &#8211; see, there are people stranger than me (I) out there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/spice.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"145\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/spice.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nI love it though, if I visit, and someone says, &#8220;Can you hand me the Lea Perrins. &nbsp;It&#8217;s in the cupboard.&#8221; &nbsp;Then I get a chance to say, &#8220;What do you use your mustard seeds for?&#8221; or &#8220;Where do you get Fenugreek?&#8221;or &#8220;What&#8217;s this???&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course I made a mistake by taking a picture of my cupboard. Now I am riddled with guilt that I have all these half empty baby food jars of whole cardamon seeds, cinnamon sticks, star anise&#8230;..the list goes on. When the kids were little my escape was Indian or Asian cooking. &nbsp;I would take cookbooks out of the library, make a list, pile the kids in the car and head out to the Danforth or Gerrard St. East for supplies. Everything got stored in baby food jars &#8211; well my youngest is 19. &nbsp;Time to tidy up!!!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe also time to do a little spicing up of dinner &#8211; we&#8217;re down to pasta 3 times a week, a little Indian from a jar and a stir fry only under pressure &#8211; all that cutting up of &#8220;things&#8221; takes its toll.<\/p>\n<p>Have a delicious day!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what I posted for &#8220;Culture&#8221; in the August photography challenge. &nbsp;I am fascinated by grocery carts and cupboards. &nbsp;Fortunately my husband does the food shopping or I would have been in jail &nbsp;long ago for voyeurism. That being said, I would never open another person&#8217;s cupboard or medicine cabinet without permission. &nbsp;I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}