My dad has a thing about fruit juice.\u00a0 He drinks gallons of the stuff.\u00a0 These days he goes for, you know, actual juice from actual fruits, but for a long time it was “fruit juice” with, you know, actual fruits in the picture on the carton.<\/p>\n
A few years ago, I watched my dad remove a jug from the fridge and pour himself an icy-cold glass of bright red liquid.\u00a0 He fell into his easy chair to drink it and read and pontificate to anyone within earshot, as usual.\u00a0 Dad sipped the “juice” over the course of about 15 minutes, grimacing after every swallow and commenting, “Dreadful stuff!” before hoisting himself up and heading back to the kitchen.\u00a0 Curious, I followed him and watched him take the jug out of the fridge to serve himself another glass.\u00a0 It tweaked my brain a little that the label said ‘Indian River’ and had a picture of an orange on it, but I wanted to ask him something so I didn’t stop to think about it.\u00a0 “Hey, Dad, why in the world are you getting more of that juice when you just<\/em> finished saying it was ‘dreadful stuff’?”<\/p>\n My mom looked up from whatever Laura-Ingallsy task she was doing, probably baking bread or pressing grapes for jelly.\u00a0 “Leighton!” she said, alarmed.\u00a0 “I told you yesterday, that’s hummingbird food!”<\/p>\n That’s my dad.\u00a0 PhD from Cambridge University and everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My dad has a thing about fruit juice.\u00a0 He drinks gallons of the stuff.\u00a0 These days he goes for, you know, actual juice from actual fruits, but for a long time it was “fruit juice” with, you know, actual fruits in the picture on the carton. A few years ago, I watched my dad remove … Continue reading My Father, Part 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fambly","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}