{"id":75,"date":"2008-10-04T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2013-10-07T19:49:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T19:49:49","slug":"schnucks-greatest-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Schnucks&#8217; Greatest Hits!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ideally, I&#8217;d conduct ALL my grocery shopping at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonground.coop\">Common Ground Food Co-op<\/a>, which is practically across the street from my house. But sometimes I require midnight runs for cheap sushi, generic cat food, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch\u2014and a kick-ass soundtrack while doing it. Which is why I&#8217;ll go to Schnucks. In the past few months I&#8217;ve heard XTC, Squeeze (&#8220;Pulling Mussels from a Shell&#8221;, NOT &#8220;Tempted&#8221;), the Ramones, and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Low<\/span>-era David Bowie. Most grocery stores sadistically force their customers to peruse the aisles to AM dreck like &#8220;Loves Me Like a Rock&#8221; or &#8220;Get Closer.&#8221; But Schnucks is committed to creating the ultimate New Wave shopping experience for its customers.<\/p>\n<p>William pictures a DJ in white smock behind the butcher counter, holding headphones to his ear, dropping the needle on <em>Marquee Moon<\/em> while slicing corned beef.<\/p>\n<div>Unfortunately, in my most recent outings, I&#8217;ve suspected a drastic format change. Starship has replaced Talk Talk; Rod Stewart has replaced Gary Numan. I&#8217;m afraid Schnucks might be going the way of bland contemporaries like Kroger and County Market.\u00a0What gives?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideally, I&#8217;d conduct ALL my grocery shopping at Common Ground Food Co-op, which is practically across the street from my house. But sometimes I require midnight runs for cheap sushi, generic cat food, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch\u2014and a kick-ass soundtrack while doing it. Which is why I&#8217;ll go to Schnucks. In the past few months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muzak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}