{"id":23,"date":"2005-06-20T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T23:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/?p=23"},"modified":"2005-06-21T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T08:10:08","slug":"love-chops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Love Chops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, 5:30pm rolled around and I got the signal that my workday was over.  Unlike Fred Flintstone, my signal was my VPN connection going down.<\/p>\n<p>The elections were closing today so Amy and I wanted to go downtown and see if there was any hubbub.  I suppose, not surprisingly, there wasn&#8217;t.  <\/p>\n<p>We ate at a Chinese restaurant called Chopsticks.  I think that you can go to a place called Chopsticks anywhere in the world and expect pretty much the same thing.  I would say this rule can be more broadly applied to Hunan Garden, Tasty Wok, or pretty much any joint with &#8220;garden&#8221; or &#8220;wok&#8221; in the name.  Afterwards we had icecream and walked through a relatively deserted Martyr&#8217;s Square.  A family was walking near the Hariri gravesite and one of the children pointed at a big poster of Rafik Hariri and asked his father, &#8220;Why are there so many pictures of this guy everywhere?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, 5:30pm rolled around and I got the signal that my workday was over. Unlike Fred Flintstone, my signal was my VPN connection going down. The elections were closing today so Amy and I wanted to go downtown and see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/?p=23\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}