{"id":2601,"date":"2002-07-15T20:31:51","date_gmt":"2002-07-15T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2002-07-15T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2002-07-15T20:31:51","slug":"i%c2%92m-half-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2601","title":{"rendered":"I\u0092M HALF-BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because buying a house, moving, and looking for new projects so we can pay for it wasn\u0092t stressful enough, we decided to go to Chicago for the weekend and visit my sweetie\u0092s family.<br \/>\nA few observations.<br \/>\nThe room mini-bars at the InterContinental have \u0091intimacy kits\u0092\u0085two condoms and some lube\u0085that\u0092s a new one on me. And it reminds me that I lost a $100 bet a number of years ago when a friend proved that the Plaza in New York had an \u0091afternoon rate\u0092 from 1 to 5 pm.<br \/>\nThe pizza in Chicago is in fact better than the pizza in Los Angeles. Period. We lose.<br \/>\nOn a beautiful weekend like the one we had, Chicago teems with so much vibrant street life that a neighborhood advocate in Los Angeles would need an intimacy kit\u0085I need to think about why it is that Chicago is so pedestrian-friendly.<br \/>\nThe concept of \u0091customer service\u0092 does not yet appear to have returned to air travel. So people like me, who are typically voluntary flyers, will doubtless continue to stay away.<br \/>\nWe\u0092re about 30% unpacked in the new house; I\u0092m using dialup via AOL, which means that surfing blogs is Right Out because I\u0092m not patient enough&#8230;I&#8217;ll catch up this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because buying a house, moving, and looking for new projects so we can pay for it wasn\u0092t stressful enough, we decided to go to Chicago for the weekend and visit my sweetie\u0092s family. A few observations. The room mini-bars at the InterContinental have \u0091intimacy kits\u0092\u0085two condoms and some lube\u0085that\u0092s a new one on me. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}