{"id":920,"date":"2009-03-31T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2009-03-31T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T21:09:44","slug":"the-real-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"The Real Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">Yesterday Byron and I had pizza from the \u201cNew York Pizza\u201d place on my block.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d often bragged about how this place made the best pizza ever.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Well, something must have happened, because I was wrong.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This was not the best pizza ever. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>It wasn\u2019t bad, but it wasn\u2019t great either.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The sauce was bland and lacking.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The crust was soft and sweet (which is good) but not at all crisped\/blackened like one would expect.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Also, whereas over a year ago when I\u2019d ordered it with my parents there was a preponderance of grease, there was no orangy runny grease anywhere.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>That absence of grease is good health-wise I\u2019m sure, but bad flavor wise.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>My model for this grease level will always be the high school cafeteria pizza that had an underneath crust with zero exposed dry area, the entire bottom was greased with\u2026 grease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">After eating pizza Byron presented me with a birthday gift:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\"><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastgasp.com\/d\/28081\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pop Surrealism Book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/popsurrealism.jpg\" alt=\"click to visit description of book\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to visit description of book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">After our pizza we invited Yaw to join us for a trip to Yamashiro.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Apparently Monday is 90s night up there.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And not the good kind of 90s either.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Byron and I tried to have a serious discussion about our artwork to the Night at the Roxbury soundtrack.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t happen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Byron and I had pizza from the \u201cNew York Pizza\u201d place on my block.\u00a0 I\u2019d often bragged about how this place made the best pizza ever.\u00a0 Well, something must have happened, because I was wrong.\u00a0 This was not the best pizza ever. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t bad, but it wasn\u2019t great either.\u00a0 The sauce was bland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}