{"id":149,"date":"2004-02-25T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-02-25T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T06:24:00","slug":"finally,-a-semi-cheap-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a semi-cheap lunch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My boss likes our group to eat together and he only really eats once a day, so he doesn&#8217;t like to eat at the greasy spoons I tend to prefer. The good thing is that the food is better. The bad thing is that it can take a couple of hours and lunch costs somewhere between $9 and $15. When my boss is gone or busy, I like heading to the &#8220;trailer park&#8221; where a line of roach-coaches serve Mexican, Indian, Thai, Pho, Polish, Greek, Italian, etc. for around $5. The pizza place downstairs has a huge slice of pepperoni and a drink for $2.90. Ah. That&#8217;s the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, lunch was a fish sandwich and it cost $15. That&#8217;s only because I had four oysters as well. The sandwich was good and the oysters were great.<\/p>\n<p>The other weird part of my job is the commute. 35-40 minutes usually, but that&#8217;s if I walk the whole way. I love not driving. And I can listen to my iPod full of silly music on the way.<\/p>\n<p>And the job isn&#8217;t so bad, either!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My boss likes our group to eat together and he only really eats once a day, so he doesn&#8217;t like to eat at the greasy spoons I tend to prefer. The good thing is that the food is better. The bad thing is that it can take a couple of hours and lunch costs somewhere between $9 and $15. When my boss is gone or busy, I like heading to the &#8220;trailer park&#8221; where a line of roach-coaches serve Mexican, Indian, Thai, Pho, Polish, Greek, Italian, etc. for around $5. The pizza place downstairs has a huge slice of pepperoni and a drink for $2.90. Ah. That&#8217;s the stuff. Yesterday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally, a semi-cheap lunch.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}