Let me describe to you what the grocery store was like today.<\/p>\n
No bananas, not one, not even a squished, blackened runty one.<\/p>\n
Only a few loaves of bread.<\/p>\n
Virtually no canned fruit, canned chili, or peanut butter.<\/p>\n
No bottled water. A line of people extended from the bottle-your-own water machine.<\/p>\n
Extremely limited soda, juice, cereal, granola bars, soup, paper products, and eggs.<\/p>\n
And this, my friends, in a city four hours from the coast, where we are not actually expected to have any rain<\/em>, and in a location with at least eight major grocery stores within a two mile radius.<\/p>\n We all know that the grocery stores are restocked every night. But unless you do your shopping at two in the morning, you have perhaps completely internalized–as I have–the picture of perfectly full, nicely arranged shelves as the normal order of things. <\/p>\n Let me tell you that I was there today for my normal weekly shopping, not needing any of the things that were missing, with almost a year’s supply of food in my home already, and it was viscerally, breathtakingly scary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let me describe to you what the grocery store was like today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}