{"id":3992,"date":"2010-07-11T22:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T05:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2010-07-11T22:44:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T05:44:24","slug":"finally-i-made-it-to-violetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"Finally, I made it to Violetta."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brain&#8217;s not running on all cylinders today. I got to Caf\u00e9 Allora in the Pearl to watch the World Cup Final game between Spain and the Netherlands and the only reason I was rooting for the Netherlands is because I didn&#8217;t want that game-predicting octopus to be right. I wasn&#8217;t very vocal about it, because I was in the middle of a lot of Spain supporters. In any case, Spain won, and the octopus was right.<\/p>\n<p>It being Portland, of course, I saw a guy I&#8217;ve gone to for Sports Massage, Michael Bilyeu. I was just thinking of calling him last week because I was all knotted up. I&#8217;m not sure why he was down in the Pearl to see the game because he lives in NE and works in SE. I did get to ask him if I still had the right number and address for him.<\/p>\n<p>The Pearl, being the Pearl, had a lot of wealthier seeming people around. Across the street from the caf\u00e9 was a BMW Alpina. I&#8217;m not quite sure what it is, but I bet it cost more than I make in a year. Two years, probably. My buddy Matty suggested I get one, but I reminded him that I am neither a drug dealer nor a record producer and he told me it was never too late for a career change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bmwalpina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bmwalpina-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bmwalpina-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bmwalpina-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bmwalpina.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I can afford is to finally get my sorry ass to Violetta to try their sustainable slow-food hamburger. I&#8217;ve heard mixed reviews, and I have to say it&#8217;s a very good burger but not the best I&#8217;ve had. Plus, it&#8217;s kind of a fast food\/slow food establishment. Tacky interior but expensive prices. The staff was super-nice and even gave me a rare hamburger, but it needed a little more sweetness in the relish. But it was tasty, the meat was tender, and I was full of cheeseburger and crispy truffle oil fries. I&#8217;d certainly not dissuade anyone from getting it, but still there was something missing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/violetta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/violetta-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Back Camera\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/violetta-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/violetta-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/violetta.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wondered why I wasn&#8217;t hungry at dinnertime and I realized that I had my burger at 2:48PM after my first bite. Late lunch. I also forgot to get my free Slurpee today. I kind of figure I can afford to buy a Slurpee, so I&#8217;m not out too much, but do I need to get as much as I can from the faceless holding corporation that owns 7-11? These are the kind of philosophical questions I can handle today, nothing much harder though. I think the sun fried my brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brain&#8217;s not running on all cylinders today. I got to Caf\u00e9 Allora in the Pearl to watch the World Cup Final game between Spain and the Netherlands and the only reason I was rooting for the Netherlands is because I didn&#8217;t want that game-predicting octopus to be right. I wasn&#8217;t very vocal about it, because I was in the middle of a lot of Spain supporters. In any case, Spain won, and the octopus was right. It being Portland, of course, I saw a guy I&#8217;ve gone to for Sports Massage, Michael Bilyeu. I was just thinking of calling him last week because I was all knotted up. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3992\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally, I made it to Violetta.<\/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-3992","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\/3992","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=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}