{"id":826,"date":"2007-02-07T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T21:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/826\/"},"modified":"2007-09-16T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T20:13:43","slug":"thoughts-on-lip-balm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/826\/","title":{"rendered":"thoughts on lip balm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In early 2005 I paid $0.99 USD before tax for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/store\/product.jsp?CATID=100207&#038;navAction=jump&#038;navCount=0&#038;id=prod387731\">regular Walgreens-brand Chap-Aid<\/a> stick. I haven&#8217;t seen it in a couple of months, and with my lips extremely dry, I caved in and bought some ChapStick yesterday. Only the brand-name stuff, and only strawberry available, which I settled for.<\/p>\n<p>Mentioning it to a friend, he was surprised that I&#8217;d kept my previous one so long. It would seem that people always lose them before finishing them. Sounds like a problem to me. A twist-tie and small piece of duct tape later, I have my solution:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/images\/keys.jpg\" alt=\"keychain with lip balm\" width=\"243\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before I risk a new venture, I took the prudent step of doing due diligence. Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22lip+balm%22+%22key+chain%22+%7C+%22key+ring%22+%7C+keychain\">it&#8217;s not quite new<\/a>. Ah well, I still like mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2005 I paid $0.99 USD before tax for a regular Walgreens-brand Chap-Aid stick. I haven&#8217;t seen it in a couple of months, and with my lips extremely dry, I caved in and bought some ChapStick yesterday. Only the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/826\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377,375,376],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-keychain","tag-lipbalm","tag-walgreens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}