{"id":3634,"date":"2010-04-29T23:22:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T06:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2010-04-29T23:22:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T06:22:25","slug":"solo-dinner-at-ringside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3634","title":{"rendered":"Solo dinner at Ringside."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there are several reasons to go to dinner by myself at Ringside. First, everyone ditched me for Burger Club and I was on my own. Second, I had a discount card that was expiring tonight. And third, Ringside is moving, remodeling, and moving back and I&#8217;m not the only one who is afraid that things will change for the worse. I mean I had a black-and-blue Kobe beef filet mignon that was charred on the outside, cold on the inside, tender, and so tasty that I had to stop after my first bite to get my bearings. Everything else was just as delicious. I did make reservations for three, hoping that my ex-heterosexual-life-partner Il was free, but he was seeing a play with his girlfriend. Whatever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/solosteak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/solosteak-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"solosteak\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/solosteak-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/solosteak-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/solosteak.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/soloccake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/soloccake-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"soloccake\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/soloccake-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/soloccake-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/soloccake.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went even though my stomach has hurt most of the day. I&#8217;m not sure if I should blame it on the medication I take where abdominal pain is reported in 36.5% of the cases or if I should blame it on the &#8220;bananas&#8221; they have at work which are really banana-shaped green sticks. And by stomach pain, I mean sharp pains that can make me feel fatigued and sleep all day long. It hasn&#8217;t gotten much better, either. Ah well, it usually goes away after a day. It didn&#8217;t spoil my dinner.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m a little drunk and at home and that just means watching dance music videos on YouTube. You know what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there are several reasons to go to dinner by myself at Ringside. First, everyone ditched me for Burger Club and I was on my own. Second, I had a discount card that was expiring tonight. And third, Ringside is moving, remodeling, and moving back and I&#8217;m not the only one who is afraid that things will change for the worse. I mean I had a black-and-blue Kobe beef filet mignon that was charred on the outside, cold on the inside, tender, and so tasty that I had to stop after my first bite to get my bearings. Everything else was just as delicious. I did make reservations for three, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3634\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Solo dinner at Ringside.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","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\/3634","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}