{"id":38,"date":"2009-11-11T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2009-11-11T09:33:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:33:52","slug":"nice-and-mean-is-a-pepper-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/nice-and-mean-is-a-pepper-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice and Mean is a Pepper, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Marina, one of the protagonists in <em>Nice and Mean<\/em> (ooh, coming out in a mere 7 months, minus three days!), is deeply invested in Dr. Pepper.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the perfect drink for her: attractively sweet but also kind of burning.\u00a0 She eats them with Mint Milanos, cookies whose chocolate is slightly bitter&#8211;also like Marina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My gal came back from a business trip to Texas having visited the Dr. Pepper Museum (yes, there is one) and informed me that she had a present not just for me, but for Marina as well.\u00a0 The present for me was a t-shirt saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m a pepper,&#8221; which I have always, always wanted.\u00a0 And for Marina, there was this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Dr Pepper lipgloss\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/cgi\/img-thing?.out=jpg&amp;size=l&amp;tid=180668\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actually, it is even better than that: it is Dr. Pepper Tasty Lipgloss with Twist and Squeeze.\u00a0 When you pop off the top, there&#8217;s a little brush stuck into the tube.\u00a0 You twist and squeeze the tube and out comes Pepper goo, and then you paint the gloss on your lips.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so cool!\u00a0\u00a0I couldn&#8217;t find an image of that product, but let me tell you, it will soon be taking over the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The best thing of all was that even though Marina can be a little grabby, she let me use her lip gloss, and in addition to making my lips\u00a0look shiny and read and beautiful,\u00a0it tasted Pepperific.\u00a0 Mm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve applied what will surely be my daily dose of Pepper, the tube is currently sitting on my desk as a little token of Marina-ness.\u00a0 Now I just have to figure out a signature item for Sachi, my other narrator.\u00a0 Sachi&#8217;s a lot less interested in Things than Marina, but she does have a gold and onyx ring from her grandmother that she twists in times of stress.\u00a0 I wonder if there&#8217;s a Museum of Gold and Onyx where my gal is going next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Marina, one of the protagonists in Nice and Mean (ooh, coming out in a mere 7 months, minus three days!), is deeply invested in Dr. Pepper.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the perfect drink for her: attractively sweet but also kind of burning.\u00a0 She eats them with Mint Milanos, cookies whose chocolate is slightly bitter&#8211;also like Marina.\u00a0 My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nice-and-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}