{"id":286,"date":"2009-07-01T20:58:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T00:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2009-07-01T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T00:58:13","slug":"no-carbonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"no carbonation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple things I&#8217;ve discovered about Singapore &#8211; beverages of the adult persuasion are nutty expensive. Soda doesn&#8217;t taste the same (and I don&#8217;t just mean the better versions of Coke that use sugar).<\/p>\n<p>I actually like the flavor of Diet Coke (the American kind). Coca Cola Light, as it&#8217;s called here, does not taste the same. We have a free dispenser at work that squirts-out little cups of the stuff, and it&#8217;s just not right. I&#8217;ve had it straight from the can, and it doesn&#8217;t taste the same there either. Not &#8220;bad&#8221; &#8211; but &#8220;weird&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Since there&#8217;re few sodas I actually enjoy, and fewer here than in the states, I&#8217;ve called a ban on carbonated beverages till I get back to the states next week.<\/p>\n<p>On the upside, the tea here is really good, and the water&#8217;s drinkable \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple things I&#8217;ve discovered about Singapore &#8211; beverages of the adult persuasion are nutty expensive. Soda doesn&#8217;t taste the same (and I don&#8217;t just mean the better versions of Coke that use sugar). I actually like the flavor of Diet Coke (the American kind). Coca Cola Light, as it&#8217;s called here, does not taste the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=286\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">no carbonation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}