{"id":16310,"date":"2018-08-29T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2018-08-28T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:07:13","slug":"lets-talk-a-basic-love-of-pumpkin-spice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/08\/29\/lets-talk-a-basic-love-of-pumpkin-spice\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Talk?<\/em>: A basic love of pumpkin spice"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a tangible shift about to happen. The air is getting cooler at night, we\u2019re all heading back to school, tank tops will soon be replaced (or at least layered) with button-down flannels, and Instagram is about to be flooded with images of rusty red foliage and pumpkin spice lattes (PSLs).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Love them or hate them, PSLs are one of the official signs that fall has arrived. For years I have delighted in the majesty of the PSL. As a September baby, and as someone who lives for the vibrancy of leaves changing and the sweet, earthy smell of fog rolling off the water, autumn is my favourite time of year; these sweet, spicy drinks are a symbol of this shift.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let’s Talk?<\/em> is a column exploring women’s rights issues; it’s in every issue of Nexus<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PSLs have been a part of my fall routine for as long as I can recall. And for years, my fellow autumn lovers embraced them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then a shift happened.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t a knee-jerk movement. It was a slow infestation: candles, air freshener, lip balm, beer\u2026 The scent permeated September, claiming the fall and catering to millennial female consumers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to lie\u2014I\u2019ve fallen victim to it over the years. Somewhere in the bottom of my backpack I have a pumpkin-pie lip balm. I have an unopened bottle of pumpkin spice vodka in my freezer and a container of pumpkin spice bathroom spray. (No, just no. Trust me.) \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I also have five or six bottles of sugar-free pumpkin spice syrup that I stockpiled last year after I decided to make my own PSLs upon discovering exactly how many calories are in a PSL (not to mention how much money I was spending on my PSL habit).<\/p>\n

And every time I make them and the telltale combo of nutmeg and cinnamon hits the air, someone inevitably judges me for it (even if it\u2019s just my cat crinkling his nose at my cup), and I feel just a little bit basic.<\/p>\n

The reality is, I shouldn\u2019t give a crap what others think. I like pumpkin spice, so what? But I\u2019m also not\u2014I would like to repeat, NOT\u2014basic.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t post inspirational quotes on Facebook (unless they really speak to me on a deep level); I don\u2019t wear yoga pants all the time (when all 15 pairs I own are dirty, I\u2019ll wear jeans to do laundry); I\u2019m not a slave to Snapchat filters (except that one that takes five years off my face\u2014that one is gold). I just love pumpkin spice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So allow me this one basic vice. Well, this, and my love of hashtags, because #sorrynotsorry, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a tangible shift about to happen. The air is getting cooler at night, we\u2019re all heading back to school, tank tops will soon be replaced (or at least layered) with button-down flannels, and Instagram is about to be flooded with images of rusty red foliage and pumpkin spice lattes (PSLs).\u00a0 Love them or hate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-august-29-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16311,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions\/16311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}