{"id":141,"date":"2005-02-20T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=141"},"modified":"2005-02-20T12:41:10","modified_gmt":"2005-02-20T12:41:10","slug":"splurging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Splurging!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/BlackAngus.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/BlackAnguss.jpg\" alt=\"Black Angus T-Bone\"><\/img><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nEvery time I go to <a href=\"http:\/\/centralmarket.com\/\">Central Market<\/a>, I seem to spend 80 dollars on groceries and this time was no exception.  One thing that I don&#8217;t like about Austin is the poor quality of beef.  When I drive around town, I will some times see Longhorns grazing on prairie grass and weeds.  And that is what the tough and gristly meat tastes like.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, I decided to splurge and buy a nice thick Black Angus porterhouse steak.  Unfortunately, it was 2 pounds which was more than I wanted.  So I switched to a T-bone steak (without the tenderloin side).  Since I cooked it for lunch, I decided to pair it with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrachips.com\/products\/tc_yukon_gold.php\">Yukon Gold<\/a> yogurt &amp; green onion potato chips.\n<\/p>\n<p>As I eat this steak for lunch, I am reminded of a quote from the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0375063\/\">Sidways:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Half my life is over and I have nothing to show for it. Nothing! I&#8217;m a thumbprint on the window of a skyscraper. I&#8217;m a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea with a million tons of raw sewage.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nNo, not that quote! About how Miles was saving his bottle of 1961 Cheval Blac wine for a special occasion and then Maya responds that whenever you drink that bottle of wine it will be a special occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I go to Central Market, I seem to spend 80 dollars on groceries and this time was no exception. One thing that I don&#8217;t like about Austin is the poor quality of beef. When I drive around town, I will some times see Longhorns grazing on prairie grass and weeds. And that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}