{"id":502991,"date":"2010-03-31T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerfreedom.com:\/\/0fb46434dcbf012947bb9f61c89efa31"},"modified":"2010-03-31T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"michael-jacobson-apologizes-for-soda-%e2%80%9clapse%e2%80%9d-flagellates-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/502991","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jacobson Apologizes for Soda \u201cLapse,\u201d Flagellates Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/activistcash.com\/biography.cfm\/b\/1284-michael-jacobson\">Michael Jacobson<\/a>, food police chief at the <a href=\"http:\/\/activistcash.com\/organization_overview.cfm\/o\/13-center-for-science-in-the-public-interest\">Center for Science in the Public Interest<\/a> (CSPI), announced today* that he wanted to make a public confession that he drank a soda.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;I know at CSPI we run a website calling soda &lsquo;liquid candy,&rsquo; but I just couldn&rsquo;t resist myself. I drank a can of root beer the other day,&rdquo; Jacobson said, sniffing away tears*.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor his penance, Jacobson will flagellate himself* with a cat o&#39; nine tails while reciting CSPI&rsquo;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> (and only) Commandment, &ldquo;Thou Shalt Not Eat Or Drink Anything That Tastes Good.&rdquo; Jacobson is considering* whether he needs to preemptively don a <a href=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2008\/10\/02\/article-1066410-002164B800000258-127_233x318.jpg\">Hannibal Lecter-style mask<\/a> to fight the temptation of cheese fries.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCSPI&rsquo;s confessional* will be open every day at 8 a.m. before Easter.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t*<em>April Fools!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jacobson, food police chief at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), announced today* that he wanted to make a public confession that he drank a soda. &ldquo;I know at CSPI we run a website calling soda &lsquo;liquid candy,&rsquo; but I just couldn&rsquo;t resist myself. I drank a can of root beer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}