{"id":327,"date":"2017-10-25T15:07:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T22:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2017-10-25T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T22:10:08","slug":"twinkie-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/twinkie-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Twinkie Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the snark and snarl of Twitter getting to you? Does the daily reporting of misogyny and misbehavior have you down? If so, it may be time to indulge in a little Twinkie therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, that\u2019s right, skip the news stories and turn to the comics pages. This week they seem to be featuring Twinkies\u2014that gooey cream-filled snack\u2014to bile it down a notch and put a smile on our faces. When we\u2019re laughing, particularly at ourselves, it\u2019s hard to be angry at someone else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkie-dinner.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-331 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkie-dinner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"913\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkie-dinner.jpg 913w, https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkie-dinner-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkie-dinner-768x253.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In cases of extreme distress, when all you can think of is lashing out at feckless politicians or your fellow man, unwrap a Twinkie and stuff it in your mouth. The calming sweetness might just release some endorphins, and let\u2019s face it, you can\u2019t really yell at someone if you have a fistful of Twinkie in your mouth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkies.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-330 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkies.jpg 916w, https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkies-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/twinkies-768x254.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So in these troubled times, remember what your mother said: \u201cif you don\u2019t have something nice to say about someone, don\u2019t say anything.\u201d Or as Calvin put it: \u201cwe\u2019d probably be dead now if it wasn\u2019t for Twinkies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twinkie, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the snark and snarl of Twitter getting to you? Does the daily reporting of misogyny and misbehavior have you down? If so, it may be time to indulge in a little Twinkie therapy. Yep, that\u2019s right, skip the news stories and turn to the comics pages. This week they seem to be featuring Twinkies\u2014that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/twinkie-therapy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twinkie Therapy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}