{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Gherkin \u2611\ufe0f (thelastgherkin)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-17 08:58:10 UTC","author_name":"Gherkin \u2611\ufe0f (thelastgherkin)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/thelastgherkin","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/4893607","html":"Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait Shop - you know the place - well anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was just PEACHY! Except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning, my mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast.  BIG BOWL OF SAUERKRAUT!  EVERY SINGLE MORNING! It was driving me crazy! I said to my mom, I said, &quot;Hey mom, what's with all the sauerkraut?&quot; And my dear, sweet mother - she just looked at my like a cow looks at an oncoming train, and she leaned right down next to me and she said &quot;IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!!&quot; And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth and force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was twenty six and a half years old. That's when I swore that someday - someday I would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place where the sun is always shin"}