{"id":2733,"date":"2009-12-04T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/04\/beans-beans"},"modified":"2009-12-04T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T00:50:00","slug":"beans-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2009\/12\/04\/beans-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Beans beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I fulfilled a three year dream of ordering vanilla beans from ebay.\u00a0 I found out about these sellers years ago, but either didn&#8217;t have the cash or didn&#8217;t have an active paypal account to deal with it.\u00a0 I was whining about wanting vanilla beans to make more marshmallows and Ben basically told me to shut up and order them already.\u00a0 After 25 minutes with paypal customer service to unlock my account, <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/20-Vanilla-Beans-Sampler-Pack-Tahitian-Bourbon-Gr-A_W0QQitemZ230364156601QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a2c612b9\">I bought my beans<\/a>.\u00a0 What a steal!\u00a0 I got a 20 bean sampler of two varieties, costing $0.50 per bean.\u00a0 Incredible!\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>We got them tonight and Ben spent most of dinner trying to figure out why they cost so little compared to stores ($6 and up per bean).\u00a0 Something about inelastic demand.\u00a0 Or scarcity.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cute how he thinks I understand economics.\u00a0 All I know is I&#8217;m going to make some FABULOUS marshmallows tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I fulfilled a three year dream of ordering vanilla beans from ebay.\u00a0 I found out about these sellers years ago, but either didn&#8217;t have the cash or didn&#8217;t have an active paypal account to deal with it.\u00a0 I was whining about wanting vanilla beans to make more marshmallows and Ben basically told me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}