{"id":464,"date":"2008-04-08T01:06:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T06:06:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-08T01:06:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T06:06:02","slug":"blue-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"blue boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 27 years I played a game with myself.  That game was: How long can I get away with not having my own suit?  I wished I had one a few times before (Andrea&#8217;s wedding, mixer at the British CG&#8217;s estate, etc.), but on Saturday I had an admissions interview for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anderson.ucla.edu\/x119.xml\" title=\"MBA program at UCLA\">MBA program at UCLA<\/a> and I knew it was game over.  <\/p>\n<p>So, with four hours to go until kick-off -Beverly and I walked into 3-Day Suit Broker in Beverly Glenn and picked one out.  Or I should say she picked one out&#8230; I just had veto power over every decision.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlorenzlong.com\/suit2.jpg\" width=400 height=533 border=0 alt=''><\/p>\n<p>The next day we visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muginohousa.com\/\" title=\"Beard Papa\">Beard Papa<\/a>.  It was my first time and her second.  We agreed that the filling was actually a little too plentiful &#8211; and the strawberry pastries had the only standout flavor.  After eating so bad for breakfast we finished it off with a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westlafarmersmarket.com\/\" title=\"west Los Angeles farmers market\">west Los Angeles farmers market<\/a> for some fresh fruit.  Later Beverly would cook &#8220;Coke Chicken&#8221; &#8211; which I&#8217;m placing at #3 on her all time cooking list behind pasta and curry chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 27 years I played a game with myself. That game was: How long can I get away with not having my own suit? I wished I had one a few times before (Andrea&#8217;s wedding, mixer at the British CG&#8217;s estate, etc.), but on Saturday I had an admissions interview for the MBA program at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}