{"id":3084,"date":"2008-01-24T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/yet_another_reason_to_demand_conventional.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:30:00","slug":"yet_another_reason_to_demand_conventional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/yet_another_reason_to_demand_conventional.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Reason To Demand Conventional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because you&#8217;re never assured that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2008\/01\/24\/2008-01-24_live_frog_in_lettuce_stuns_mom.html\">the amphibians you also get have been raised organically<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A health-conscious Brooklyn mom says she nearly jumped out of her skin when she found a little green frog napping between the leaves of a head of organic lettuce she brought home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I jumped away&#8221; said 39-year-old Yvonne Brechbuhler, fearing she&#8217;d uncovered a dead bug or worse, a slug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know what it was. But once I realized it was a frog, I was okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Prospect Heights mom, who doubles as a stage actress, described the tiny visitor no bigger than the tip of her pinky finger as &#8220;one tough frog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said first the frog survived a journey from South Florida to the Park Slope Food Coop, then another three days in her refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p>Finally it narrowly escaped being part of a pesticide-free salad she was making last week.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because you&#8217;re never assured that the amphibians you also get have been raised organically: A health-conscious Brooklyn mom says she nearly jumped out of her skin when she found a little green frog napping between the leaves of a head of organic lettuce she brought home. &#8220;I jumped away&#8221; said 39-year-old Yvonne Brechbuhler, fearing she&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,17,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bah_humbug","category-brooklyn","category-dude_thats_so_weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}