{"id":17693,"date":"2026-05-26T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=17693"},"modified":"2026-05-26T06:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:24:29","slug":"i-went-to-the-store-to-buy-pork-ribs-and-came-home-to-cook-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=17693","title":{"rendered":"I went to the store to buy pork ribs and came home to cook them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was cooking pork ribs when I noticed something pale and stringy curling out of the meat. My heart dropped instantly \u2014 I was convinced it was a worm.<\/p>\n<p>I shut off the stove and spent nearly an hour panicking, searching online, and imagining the worst. Then I finally learned the truth: it was only a tendon, completely normal connective tissue in pork.<\/p>\n<p>The fear disappeared, but dinner was ruined. The experience reminded me how quickly the mind can turn uncertainty into terror before the facts catch up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I was cooking pork ribs when I noticed something pale and stringy curling out of the meat. My heart dropped instantly \u2014 I was convinced <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=17693\" title=\"I went to the store to buy pork ribs and came home to cook them.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17695,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693\/revisions\/17695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}