{"id":842,"date":"2008-02-08T10:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T09:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=842"},"modified":"2008-02-08T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T09:15:46","slug":"dashed-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"<b>Dashed hopes<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things from the States I have missed most, and most consistently, since I moved to Sweden is Cheerios.  Sure, we&#8217;ve got Honey-Nut Cheerios and Multi-Grain Cheerios, but what I really want is regular timeless-classic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheerios.com\/ourCereals\/Cheerios\/Cheerios_home.aspx\">yellow-box Cheerios<\/a>.  Skip the fancy flavors and the sugar coating &#8212; just give me plain oat rings and I&#8217;ll be happy.  There&#8217;s really nothing else like them for combating nausea (especially early-pregnancy nausea), and they make a great finger food for little kids, plus they&#8217;re just darn tasty.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise and delight, then, when I saw a &#8220;new&#8221; flavor of Cheerios in the grocery store a couple of weeks ago.  Oat!  Just oat!  I snapped up a box and hoped against hope that these would be the old stand-by of my halcyon days.  When I got home and poured myself a bowl, however, it was as I&#8217;d feared:  they weren&#8217;t the same.  True, they were closer than anything else I&#8217;ve seen in Sweden, but they were still too sugary.  I shouldn&#8217;t have let that beige box fool me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to thinking, though &#8230; maybe they&#8217;ve changed the recipe in the States as well.  Maybe all Cheerios have more sugar now than they did ten years ago.  Could it be?  Can anyone confirm or  or deny?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things from the States I have missed most, and most consistently, since I moved to Sweden is Cheerios. Sure, we&#8217;ve got Honey-Nut Cheerios and Multi-Grain Cheerios, but what I really want is regular timeless-classic, yellow-box Cheerios. Skip the fancy flavors and the sugar coating &#8212; just give me plain oat rings and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=842\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dashed hopes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}