{"id":148,"date":"2012-03-17T09:53:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/?p=148"},"modified":"2012-03-17T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T19:05:51","slug":"shamrock-shakes-on-march-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Shamrock Shakes on March 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shamrock-shake_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Shamrock Shakes\" style=\"float:left; margin-right: 5px;\" \/>It&#8217;s hard to believe that after 30 years McDonald&#8217;s still has Shamrock Shakes every March.  Back in the seventies I thought they were a one time novelty and I loved them.  Today, they are still green in color and flavored with mint.  These days they are served in a clear cup so you can really see the color.  In truth they taste just ok but the nostalgic memories just can&#8217;t be beat.  I almost never go to Mickey D&#8217;s for food but the Shamrock Shake is too tempting to resist.  <\/p>\n<p>Check out Chronicle culture critic Peter Hartlaub&#8217;s post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/parenting\/detail?blogid=29&#038;entry_id=59196\">Shamrock Shakes<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Also, for your enjoyment I found these two TV commercials here (the one with Uncle O&#8217;grimacey is the best):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9GkQvhOtZzI&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9GkQvhOtZzI&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WPPujLdtvu0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WPPujLdtvu0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that after 30 years McDonald&#8217;s still has Shamrock Shakes every March. Back in the seventies I thought they were a one time novelty and I loved them. Today, they are still green in color and flavored with mint. These days they are served in a clear cup so you can really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}