{"id":1543,"date":"2007-12-31T23:26:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T07:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2008-01-01T09:43:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T17:43:54","slug":"merry-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Merry New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so exciting. I&#8217;m sitting around in my sweat pants, waiting for the noise to end in an hour or so so I can get some sleep. 2007 wasn&#8217;t the best of years and I&#8217;m ready for it to be over. I know it&#8217;s just an arbitrary date, but it&#8217;s still symbolic.<\/p>\n<p>The last lunch of the year wasn&#8217;t bad. My mom and I took a walk to the bank just to get out of the house and we had lunch on the way back. I was selfishly heading towards a spot I like, Bonnie&#8217;s Burgers. It used to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancilnance.com\/html\/255.htm\">old-school burger drive-in<\/a>, but it closed down when I was a kid. In fact, I only went there once or twice when I was a kid and it was awful.<\/p>\n<p>The present incarnation looks much worse from the outside. It&#8217;s part of an Astro gas station near Good Samaritan Hospital in NW Portland. Fortunately, it has pretty good burgers (possibly a little over-cooked) and very good fries. It&#8217;s the kind of Korean-run hamburger place that I love. My mom wanted something &#8220;non-greasy&#8221; and I knew they had teriyaki bowls.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie&#8217;s Burgers is what you&#8217;d expect the inside of a gas station burger joint, but they have a poster of udon on the wall. It&#8217;s not on the menu, but my mom took a chance and asked if they had it, and they did. My buddy Il says they eat udon in Korea. It was pretty good with fresh grilled chicken and fried egg. I still had my usual bacon cheeseburger and fries, but next time I might get the udon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bonniesudon.jpg\" title=\"The udon at Bonnie's Burgers is pretty good.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bonniesudon.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bonnie&rsquo;s Burgers Udon.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so exciting. I&#8217;m sitting around in my sweat pants, waiting for the noise to end in an hour or so so I can get some sleep. 2007 wasn&#8217;t the best of years and I&#8217;m ready for it to be over. I know it&#8217;s just an arbitrary date, but it&#8217;s still symbolic. The last lunch of the year wasn&#8217;t bad. My mom and I took a walk to the bank just to get out of the house and we had lunch on the way back. I was selfishly heading towards a spot I like, Bonnie&#8217;s Burgers. It used to be an old-school burger drive-in, but it closed down when I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry New Year!<\/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-1543","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\/1543","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=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}