{"id":2895,"date":"2011-11-30T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2011-11-29T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T05:02:53","slug":"cutting-edge-toothpaste-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2895","title":{"rendered":"Cutting-Edge Toothpaste Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know why you come here. You come here for the cold hard facts. You want to know what&#8217;s really up in the world of toothpaste.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got you covered.<\/p>\n<p>Freed from my mother&#8217;s house and the toothpaste she would often purchase for me and place in my bathroom like an extremely nice parent, I was free to buy any toothpaste I damn well pleased. When my tube was running out, I was excited by the prospect of a new, thrilling dental hygiene adventure. I went to the store, where I spied my normal toothpaste. Screw that! I looked lower on the shelf, and there was Crest Complete Citrus Splash toothpaste! It called to me. I have always been a citrus-loving person, and the idea of a toothpaste that did not taste like mint intrigued me. I had to find out. I purchased it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, my current toothpaste didn&#8217;t run out for like another month! This is the danger of those tubes that you don&#8217;t roll up like I was using. My dog even tried to eat the box the toothpaste was in during that month! Luckily, he was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I finally got to try it and, uh, wow. That was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The taste is okay. It&#8217;s kind of like a watered-down orange soda? There&#8217;s nothing wrong with it. It is inoffensive on that front, and I am certainly going to use the whole tube. But I just didn&#8217;t consider how strong the mental connection of &#8220;Mint=Clean&#8221; is. It feels extremely wrong to brush my teeth with this stuff. Not to mention that, moments after I brush my teeth, I am normally using some minty mouthwash, which just kind of kills the orange taste in my mouth anyway. Add all this up, and realize that it&#8217;s not like I hate the taste of mint or anything, and I just really don&#8217;t see why I would need this sort of flavored toothpaste.<\/p>\n<p>This has been one of my most boring posts to date! Stay tuned tomorrow, where I write about my experiences with a new brand of freezer bag! (Not really.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know why you come here. You come here for the cold hard facts. You want to know what&#8217;s really up in the world of toothpaste. I&#8217;ve got you covered. Freed from my mother&#8217;s house and the toothpaste she would often purchase for me and place in my bathroom like an extremely nice parent, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}