{"id":877,"date":"2013-07-16T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=877"},"modified":"2013-07-16T19:02:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T00:02:49","slug":"choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sprinkles\"I had an interesting experience with the nature of choice the other day.\u00a0 I was driving along, and got a hankering for a milkshake, as one does when the weather is ludicrously, unreasonably hot.\u00a0 I stopped at one of those roadside ice cream stands, and after a good long wait in line, ordered my shake.\u00a0 While I waited for it to be shook (shaken?) I happened to hear the man behind me in line ask what sort of sprinkles they had.\u00a0 Now, the person behind the counter answered, naturally enough, “chocolate and rainbow”, and the man decided that he didn’t want sprinkles on his ice cream after all<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So.\u00a0 What did he expect his flavor options would be?\u00a0 Given that chocolate and rainbow are the two, and only two, flavors that every single ice cream stand in the United States has.\u00a0 Also, they both basically taste like corn syrup – chocolate sprinkles have just a hint of cocoa flavor to them, and the rainbow sort have just a bit of the flavor of visible light that has been refracted into its component wavelengths, but only a bit.\u00a0 Oh, I suppose it is possible that ice cream sprinkles exist out there that are not<\/em> chocolate or rainbow, and possibly even have a real flavor, but surely anyplace that sells them would advertise their dulce de leche or basil sprinkles with prominent signs, making a real selling point of it.<\/p>\n

So, clearly, this man was not truly expecting some particular kind of gourmet sprinkles.\u00a0 No, I think the whole exchange speaks to a deep yearning for that which is barely understood, that which can barely even be.\u00a0 For how else to find this ineffable something<\/em>, this\u00a0 wondrous magic, than to ask after it whenever a choice presents itself?\u00a0 So you keep asking, you magnificent bastard.\u00a0 Keep looking for those sprinkles.<\/p>\n

Now, that being said, what is up with the white sprinkles?\u00a0 Clearly, white sprinkles are the precise opposite<\/em> of rainbow sprinkles – rainbows are what happens when white light gets split.\u00a0 So let’s have no more of that.<\/p>\n

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I had an interesting experience with the nature of choice the other day.\u00a0 I was driving along, and got a hankering for a milkshake, as one does when the weather is ludicrously, unreasonably hot.\u00a0 I stopped at one of those roadside ice cream stands, and after a good long wait in line, ordered my shake.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}