{"id":1400,"date":"2007-08-21T22:52:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T05:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2007-08-21T22:52:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T05:52:38","slug":"the-ethiopian-tried-to-melt-my-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"The Ethiopian tried to melt my face off."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I exaggerate. The most exciting thing I did today was to go to the Ethiopian restaurant for lunch with a co-worker. She&#8217;s from Peru, and I didn&#8217;t realize that the food in Peru isn&#8217;t that spicy. Anyway, I ordered chicken, which was supposed to be medium spicy. They came back to tell me that they&#8217;d run out of chicken breast, but had chicken thighs, and I said that was OK. But they didn&#8217;t tell me that the dish with thighs was much spicier than the dish made with chicken breast. My first mouthful made me drink my glass of water.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also in big trouble with some co-workers. I asked if we had to be physically present at our 7AM meeting and the boss said yes. If I had just kept my mouth shut, the boss could have been disappointed with us later when we were more awake. Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I exaggerate. The most exciting thing I did today was to go to the Ethiopian restaurant for lunch with a co-worker. She&#8217;s from Peru, and I didn&#8217;t realize that the food in Peru isn&#8217;t that spicy. Anyway, I ordered chicken, which was supposed to be medium spicy. They came back to tell me that they&#8217;d run out of chicken breast, but had chicken thighs, and I said that was OK. But they didn&#8217;t tell me that the dish with thighs was much spicier than the dish made with chicken breast. My first mouthful made me drink my glass of water. I&#8217;m also in big trouble with some co-workers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ethiopian tried to melt my face off.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}