{"id":655,"date":"2014-03-31T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T01:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2014-12-01T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T13:17:17","slug":"the-popcorn-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"The Popcorn Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Popcorn Hour occurs every work day at 4 PM.<\/p>\n

The First Rule of the Popcorn Hour is that the popcorn must never be popped\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 before 4 o’clock. \u00a0Exceptions can only be made for half-days, and on days I have to leave work early. Otherwise, the popcorn cannot be popped before the appointed hour.<\/p>\n

As that magic hour nears, I get up from my desk, go over to a cabinet, and take a package of microwave popcorn out of a\u00a0secret supply\u00a0I keep in reserve.\u00a0I then proceed to the break room to microwave up some tasty kernels.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I start the microwaving process before 4 o’clock but, as a\u00a0strict rule, I never\u00a0finish before 4:00 PM straight up. In otherwords, it is permissible to pop popcorn into<\/em> the Popcorn Hour, just not before it. Often, people come into the break room and\u00a0comment on my popcorn making. I respond with some innocuous chit-chat. However, I am very careful not to engage in conversation.\u00a0I don’t want the people to hang around until the popcorn is ready because I might have to share some.<\/p>\n

And that’s because the Second Rule of the Popcorn Hour is try to keep it all for yourself!<\/p>\n

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The Popcorn Hour occurs every work day at 4 PM. The First Rule of the Popcorn Hour is that the popcorn must never be popped\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 before 4 o’clock. \u00a0Exceptions can only be made for half-days, and on days I have … Continue reading →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}