{"id":893,"date":"2006-06-02T21:48:26","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T04:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2006-06-03T06:23:43","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T13:23:43","slug":"i-just-spent-150-on-dinner-for-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"I just spent $150 on dinner for myself."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, let me say my dinner at Lucca was fantastic. A $75 half-bottle of wine, tenderloin of lamb with a little bit of greens, and a small plate of cheeses. I felt a little silly being there by myself, and even sillier that I was seated in the DATE SECTION and there were five other tables of couples nearby. Good thing I had the three Sam Adams at the USENIX reception before I even stumbled into the North End of Boston. If anyone goes, by the way, Lucca is extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Our two day meeting is over and now I have a day to myself to <del>flip off MIT<\/del> enjoy Boston. I&#8217;m meeting a guy I know online who works at MIT for lunch, and then I think I&#8217;m going to Revere Beach because of the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119778\/\">Next Stop Wonderland<\/a>. I know I&#8217;m not going to meet my Hope Davis, but I want to see the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, let me say my dinner at Lucca was fantastic. A $75 half-bottle of wine, tenderloin of lamb with a little bit of greens, and a small plate of cheeses. I felt a little silly being there by myself, and even sillier that I was seated in the DATE SECTION and there were five other tables of couples nearby. Good thing I had the three Sam Adams at the USENIX reception before I even stumbled into the North End of Boston. If anyone goes, by the way, Lucca is extraordinary. Our two day meeting is over and now I have a day to myself to flip off MIT enjoy Boston. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I just spent $150 on dinner for myself.<\/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-893","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\/893","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=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}