{"id":308,"date":"2006-05-16T14:26:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T19:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2006-05-16T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T19:26:52","slug":"chinese-buffet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"chinese buffet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this is kind of a naughty happy thing, but i had lunch today with a friend from my old job and we met up at a chinese buffet.  i adore chinese food (although i generally prefer a good sit-down meal to a buffet&#8211;reasons to follow) but mr. h-s is not too fond of the soy sauce, so we don&#8217;t very often go out for chinese (although i must admit that we eat chinese more frequently than seafood which is my least favorite category of food).  the naughty part about the chinese buffet is that i pretty much always pile my plate way more full than i would if i were just offered one dish, but with so many choices&#8230; i want to try everything!  and there are so many delicious deep fried choices.    so&#8230; i ate too much.  but i don&#8217;t think i&#8217;ll have time for supper tonight, so maybe i&#8217;ll just skip it and the calories will balance out.  but that dim sum was very tasty.  and they had that thick, plasticky pudding that comes out of a big can that i find so oddly delicious.  and i also ate some green beans.<\/p>\n<p>i also enjoyed the company of my friend!  we both have an ability to talk forever, so even though we&#8217;ve been out of contact for a few months, we still talked each other out to the parking lot.  i got caught up on little bits of gossip from the old job (someone graduated from college, the new building is going well, etc.) and i shared with her the parts of my new job that i&#8217;m enjoying.  it was all very nice!<\/p>\n<p>and one more thing&#8211;this restaurant has a crystal chandelier shaped like a ship!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is kind of a naughty happy thing, but i had lunch today with a friend from my old job and we met up at a chinese buffet. i adore chinese food (although i generally prefer a good sit-down meal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=308\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}