{"id":490,"date":"2004-07-17T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-17T23:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/17\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T19:35:35","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T23:35:35","slug":"olive-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/17\/olive-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Met mom for lunch at Olive Garden today.  They had already seated her when we came in, literally as far from the entrance as she could possibly be seated.  Luckily, however, the girl taking names was able to recall where she&#8217;d been placed, and Bob and I found her without being too long about it.<\/p>\n<p>The waitress was slow; she didn&#8217;t do anything wrong, but she just did not project an attitude of enthusiastic assistance.  But the food was quite good and there was plenty of it, so I can hardly complain too much.  We&#8217;d just seen mom on Wednesday, but there was still apparently plenty of news to be passed along today: J2&#8217;s bad Chemistry grade, J1&#8217;s claim that he is now no longer drinking so much &#8212; which has mom worried that he&#8217;s now no longer going out to have any fun at all.  He can&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>To my amusement and exasperation, we somehow ended up talking about transferring VHS tapes to DVD, and mom started going on about how she needed us to do that for her eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Except J2 and I are already working on that for Christmas! Argh.  I guess it will still be a surprise, but I was not very pleased to have to talk about it at lunch today.  It was a great temptation to say &#8216;beat you to it&#8217;.  But of course, we have not gotten very far at all on the project yet.  Gas has been too expensive for me to go over there as I had originally planned and start sorting through the tapes.   Now that it&#8217;s starting to go down again, I&#8217;ll try and get back on track with that.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met mom for lunch at Olive Garden today. They had already seated her when we came in, literally as far from the entrance as she could possibly be seated. Luckily, however, the girl taking names was able to recall where she&#8217;d been placed, and Bob and I found her without being too long about it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}