{"id":150,"date":"2008-08-11T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-08-11T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T19:55:48","slug":"where-shall-we-eat-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/where-shall-we-eat-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Where shall we eat today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So in an effort to celebrate the return of school, dinner out ‘was a go’.\u00a0\u00a0 Amidst the plethora, no – vast numbers, no – veritable cornucopia, no\u00a0– okay, 3 decent and semi-affordable restaurant choices in Mobile to choose from, “Carrabbas” was chosen.\u00a0 Did I say semi-affordable?\u00a0 Scratch that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And even though the hostess was dumbstruck at the audacity shown when we decided to leave at 5:45PM with our three hungry children as opposed to wait the\u00a0short 45 minutes for a table, we packed everyone back into the car to find another suitable restaurant to eat at.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While passing the nearby Burger King, all three kids exclaimed that it was a perfectly acceptable dining establishment, and emphasized it’s prominence in the marketplace.\u00a0 “You know – that’s the place where there is the King who makes burgers.”<\/p>\n

Immediately my wife commented to me that I should probably NOT blog about this, and under no circumstances should I post a picture of the king who freaks us out everytime we see the commercial.\u00a0 I made no promises\u00a0– and given the recent inactivity of blogging, it was decided that the world needed to hear it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While I personally appreciate the notion that the fine king is making burgers for all, with a servant’s heart, there are more than a few reasons why we did not visit.\u00a0 Instead, we went 45 minutes away and ate at a\u00a0less cost effective restaurant, but the kids enjoyed using their ‘kid chopsticks’, and the experience was enjoyed by all involved…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So in an effort to celebrate the return of school, dinner out ‘was a go’.\u00a0\u00a0 Amidst the plethora, no – vast numbers, no – veritable cornucopia, no\u00a0– okay, 3 decent and semi-affordable restaurant choices in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}