{"id":277,"date":"2005-01-14T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=277"},"modified":"2005-03-02T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T16:09:11","slug":"friday-night-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next restaurant on the schedule is a Chinese place. It&#8217;s well appointed<br \/>\n inside but there is only one patron besides me. There is some takeout that<br \/>\n has just come from the kitchen so that is a good sign. The proprietess<br \/>\n speaks Cantonese so my meager Mandarin isn&#8217;t impressing her very much. I&#8217;ve<br \/>\n ordered a spring roll and shrimp fried rice (or at least that&#8217;s what I<br \/>\n think I&#8217;ve ordered.<\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s clear and quite cold tonight. I had to scrape ice off my car this<br \/>\n morning and will have to do the same tomorrow, I&#8217;m sure. This weather is<br \/>\n forecast to hold through Monday.<\/p>\n<p> Several more takeout orders have been picked up. This place seems also to<br \/>\n have a delivery service. A couple more patrons have come in. The spring<br \/>\n roll was huge. Sections of it were stuffed with different vegetables and<br \/>\n meat. Very different from what I&#8217;ve had in other parts of the world. It&#8217;s<br \/>\n still a bit early for eating out, so we&#8217;ll see what the patron count is by<br \/>\n the time I&#8217;m finished.<\/p>\n<p> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next restaurant on the schedule is a Chinese place. It&#8217;s well appointed inside but there is only one patron besides me. There is some takeout that has just come from the kitchen so that is a good sign. The proprietess speaks Cantonese so my meager Mandarin isn&#8217;t impressing her very much. I&#8217;ve ordered a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Night Chinese<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-musings","category-travels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-4t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}