{"id":673,"date":"2012-05-28T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T01:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=673"},"modified":"2012-06-28T00:42:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T04:42:37","slug":"final-thoughts-on-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Final Thoughts on LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Maybe, God forbid, the place was what it appeared to be&#8211;a melange of Okies and thieves and bewildered\u00c2\u00a0J\u00c3\u00adbaros.<\/p>\n<p>~Hunter S. Thompson, <em>The Rum Diary<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite an amazing time at the wedding, enjoying the unending vacation weather, finding good food and drink, and the\u00c2\u00a0pleasant disposition of people, something about the city seemed off. \u00c2\u00a0I can&#8217;t judge based on this 72 hour jaunt, but something rubbed me the wrong way. \u00c2\u00a0It seemed like a shiny new sprawling suburb. \u00c2\u00a0A clean surface with an untrustworthy or vacant interior. \u00c2\u00a0Though, perhaps, I could seen hints of what people love about the city. \u00c2\u00a0It is clean, healthy, with weather that allows you to love the outdoors. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe it&#8217;s,\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Home from Los Angeles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=648\">as I began to contemplate on my return to New York<\/a>, me or my life that&#8217;s a\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C3%A9lange\">melange<\/a> overdue for resorting and re-evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe, God forbid, the place was what it appeared to be&#8211;a melange of Okies and thieves and bewildered\u00c2\u00a0J\u00c3\u00adbaros. ~Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary Despite an amazing time at the wedding, enjoying the unending vacation weather, finding good food and drink, and the\u00c2\u00a0pleasant disposition of people, something about the city seemed off. \u00c2\u00a0I can&#8217;t judge [&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":[141],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-la-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}