{"id":248,"date":"2008-12-08T02:39:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T02:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/friday-food-drink-and-good-stuff\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T02:39:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T02:39:42","slug":"friday-food-drink-and-good-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/friday-food-drink-and-good-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, food, drink and good stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things about Britain that I frequently miss is &#8220;The Quick Pint After Work &#8482;.&#8221; So when an opportunity arises to go to the pub after work for a few, with some sound people, I attend enthusiastically. This last Friday celebrated the departure from my old job of someone I really liked and so was an excuse for a bunch of excellent people to go to T.Hogans (by Wissahickon Station). Going to the pub after work was as enjoyable as I remember it from the good old days, albeit lacking the excellent New Cross company. Nonetheless, it was just right, and the beer wasn&#8217;t to expensive either. When I say &#8220;beer&#8221;, I mean &#8220;beerated water&#8221; of course.<\/p>\n<p>As the night went on I realized that I could either go home, or regret the rest of the evening, so I left while the rest of the posse planned their trip to &#8220;The Ballet&#8221; [ which was actually an excursion to some strip club in Conshohocken.] <\/p>\n<p>It was a 25 minute walk home in the cold so I managed to refuel the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petting-zoo.net\/~deadbeef\/archive\/5256.html\">beer scooter<\/a> with a traditional Philly Cheesesteak. Brits need to realise that the traditional kebab compares poorly to the Cheesesteak.<\/p>\n<p>Although obviously nothing compares to a proper after-pub curry.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend involved watching some excellent films [Quantum of Solace, Pineapple Express, and Burn After Reading]. They were all superb &#8211; go and watch them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things about Britain that I frequently miss is &#8220;The Quick Pint After Work &#8482;.&#8221; So when an opportunity arises to go to the pub after work for a few, with some sound people, I attend enthusiastically. This last Friday celebrated the departure from my old job of someone I really liked and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}