{"id":286,"date":"2005-08-20T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-20T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/286"},"modified":"2005-08-20T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2005-08-20T18:27:17","slug":"sangria-and-stolen-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/286","title":{"rendered":"Sangria and stolen cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had time today to wander the hot streets of Champaign before learning about Web of Science (it&#8217;s a database,   yo), and I noticed that the always-closed sushi place was open. I decided that I should aspire to be more like Allison (ev&#8217;ry day) so I went in for a tasty lunch while I still had money in my coffer.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was the sushi cheap, but it was good too. All you can quaff miso soup didn&#8217;t hurt either. I spent $8 and was gorged by the end.<\/p>\n<p>I seem to be in &#8220;meet and greet&#8221; mode, so I plunked myself down to a nice fellow named Phillip. He&#8217;s an undergrad studying for the summer in the chemical engineering department, and had been to Japan earlier in the summer. We discussed lingal shibboliths. Lovely boy, really.<br \/>\nGood lord. Last night I was drunk enough to become obnoxious. Wow. Sorry all.<\/p>\n<p>On the upside,<br \/>\n  I taught newbies to play euchre. So, all in all, I think it balanced out karmically. Maybe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh, Mom, to clarify: I stole a pack of cigarettes from someone in an attempt to keep them from smoking. Not because I smoke cigarettes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had time today to wander the hot streets of Champaign before learning about Web of Science (it&#8217;s a database, yo), and I noticed that the always-closed sushi place was open. I decided that I should aspire to be more like Allison (ev&#8217;ry day) so I went in for a tasty lunch while I still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-school-special"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}