{"id":166,"date":"2004-03-17T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-03-17T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T05:54:00","slug":"sometimes-im-glad-when-the-disappointments-are-this-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I&#8217;m glad when the disappointments are this small."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad and I went to Skyline Restaurant in Portland. It&#8217;s a fairly famous hamburger shop that had the admiration of food critic James Beard amongst others. I&#8217;ve been going there for over 30 years. Well, the first thing I noticed was that the fries and ketchup were different. Not bad, just different. My burger wasn&#8217;t as good as usual, and my dad&#8217;s chicken burger was tasteless.The waitress made herself scarce, too. We waited 30 minutes for the check and had to have them search for it.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, though, it wasn&#8217;t bad, it just wasn&#8217;t as good. Small disappointments.<\/p>\n<p>So I pulled out an 80&#8217;s green shirt to wear as protective coloration today and nobody else was really wearing them. Even got pinched by a guy I don&#8217;t know. Whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad and I went to Skyline Restaurant in Portland. It&#8217;s a fairly famous hamburger shop that had the admiration of food critic James Beard amongst others. I&#8217;ve been going there for over 30 years. Well, the first thing I noticed was that the fries and ketchup were different. Not bad, just different. My burger wasn&#8217;t as good as usual, and my dad&#8217;s chicken burger was tasteless.The waitress made herself scarce, too. We waited 30 minutes for the check and had to have them search for it. Like I said, though, it wasn&#8217;t bad, it just wasn&#8217;t as good. Small disappointments. So I pulled out an 80&#8217;s green shirt to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sometimes I&#8217;m glad when the disappointments are this small.<\/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-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}