{"id":770,"date":"2004-12-02T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2004-12-02T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T16:02:00","slug":"770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

December. Time to dust off the record<\/a>, methinks.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was spicy food overload day. Had Thai for lunch (first time I’d had it–it was the welcome-Karen-to-the-office lunch) and barbeque for dinner, as it was Stephen’s 23rd and that was his choice of restaurant for the get-together. Fortunately, as I was telling Em last night, my stomach lining doesn’t seem the worse for wear.<\/p>\n

Am I the only one who thinks the latest crop of Hardee’s commercials are borderline offensive and just really stupid? I’m as much a fan of political incorrectness as the next guy, but there’s a way to lampoon societal conventions in intelligent ways and then there’s just appealing to the lowest common denominator, and Hardee’s seems definitely to be indulging in the latter. I’m specifically referring to the ones showing how inept guys can be at fixing breakfast and the one with the model riding the mechanical bull, eating a burger. There are more, to be sure, but without fail they’re just…tasteless and really dumb. And they don’t make me want to eat there, which I guess is the kicker.<\/p>\n

Not that a talking oven mitt is really any more intelligent. Contemplating Arby’s for lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December. Time to dust off the record, methinks. Yesterday was spicy food overload day. Had Thai for lunch (first time I’d had it–it was the welcome-Karen-to-the-office lunch) and barbeque for dinner, as it was Stephen’s 23rd and that was his choice of restaurant for the get-together. Fortunately, as I was telling Em last night, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}