{"id":195,"date":"2026-07-09T05:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballardtimess.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:41:04","slug":"overheard-at-the-ballard-sunday-market-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Overheard at the Ballard Sunday Market, Pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A weekly collection of things we definitely heard, probably misheard, or spiritually understood while standing too close to people buying $9 mushrooms.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re not getting pastries. We\u2019re just looking at them emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI support local farmers, I just don\u2019t think beets should cost that much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not mad they brought their dog. I\u2019m mad their dog seems richer than me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis honey tastes like someone with a beard made it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI miss when this neighborhood had character,\u201d said man buying $18 granola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly collection of things we definitely heard, probably misheard, or spiritually understood while standing too close to people buying $9 mushrooms. \u201cWe\u2019re not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-overheard"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Overheard-at-the-Ballard-Sunday-Market-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Overheard-at-the-Ballard-Sunday-Market-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"The Ballard Times","author_link":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theballardtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}