{"id":1374,"date":"2003-03-19T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2003-03-19T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T20:49:06","slug":"random-thoughts-about-meeting-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts about Meeting Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not in the sense of &#8220;Hi food, how&#8217;ve you been?&#8221;  More along the lines of food left over after a staff meeting.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve ranted briefly about meeting food before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/000027.html\">long ago<\/a>.  Yesterday morning there were bagels and cream cheese in the break room, leftovers from some six AM conference.  This afternoon there was coleslaw.<\/p>\n<p>No signs of any other food.  Just a big bowl of chopped cabbage, carrots and other assorted veggies swimming in mayonnaise-based dressing.  There it sat with a serving spoon sticking out at a jaunty angle.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how long it&#8217;d been sitting there, so even if I were hungry I wasn&#8217;t about to eat any.  Plus there wasn&#8217;t anything to serve it into, apart from the little plastic cups for the water cooler.<\/p>\n<p>And you know that nothing&#8217;s more refreshing after a hard day&#8217;s work than a nice hearty glass of coleslaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not in the sense of &#8220;Hi food, how&#8217;ve you been?&#8221; More along the lines of food left over after a staff meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}