{"id":844,"date":"2005-08-11T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:18","slug":"serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in D.C. for a class (hang on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A\/\/www.controlchaos.com\/&#038;ei=Y6f6QuaIMLvCiwGw7OCVDg\" target=\"browser\">the electrodes Rove is implanting<\/a> are itching a bit) which finished about 6:30 tonight. I missed joining the rest for dinner because I had to work for a few hours first.<\/p>\n<p>As I walked from my hotel through the GWU campus, looking for a light meal, I saw the neon sign of a Baja Fresh &#8211; a good Mexican fast-food chain that&#8217;s also near my house. I walked over, and just as I was about to cross the street, I saw a neon sign on a basement restaurant &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/us.lrd.yahoo.com\/_ylt=AjMwd9n20fdd5e3Re7eGHGeKNcIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsaHBuMXY2BF9zAzk2NjE3NDk1BHNlYwNzcGVjcw--\/SIG=117qmggqd\/**http%3a\/\/www.elchalanrestaurant.com\/\" target=\"browser\">El Chalan<\/a> at 20th and I. It turns out to have yummy Peruvian food &#8211; a great chicken in peanut-garlic sauce made a much better dinner than a couple of soft tacos.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s largely luck, but it also helps to be willing to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in D.C. for a class (hang on, the electrodes Rove is implanting are itching a bit) which finished about 6:30 tonight. I missed joining the rest for dinner because I had to work for a few hours first. As I walked from my hotel through the GWU campus, looking for a light meal, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}