{"id":1852,"date":"2013-10-17T12:41:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T19:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2013-10-17T12:41:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T19:41:25","slug":"culinary-classics-or-have-a-nice-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/culinary-classics-or-have-a-nice-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Culinary Classics or: Have a Nice Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock_hill_sign_web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1858\" alt=\"rock_hill_sign_web\" src=\"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock_hill_sign_web-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock_hill_sign_web-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rock_hill_sign_web.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I even sampled pork rinds and decided I didn&#8217;t care much for them, but I drew the line at pickled eggs and brined pigs feet floating cut in half in clear jars by the register of every gas station and convenience store I went into. One time while buying cigarettes with a check I asked if anyone actually bought those things. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;Where you from?&#8221; the clerk said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I told him Alaska. He raised his brow and puckered as if knowing that Alaska was north somewhere but not sure if that made me a Yankee.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He looked at the check and handed it back to me and said, &#8220;Sorry, but I can&#8217;t take this from no Richard Nixon.&#8221; He smiled and I knew then there<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0was no use in arguing. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As I left he added, &#8220;Have a nice day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~ The Troubles<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I even sampled pork rinds and decided I didn&#8217;t care much for them, but I drew the line at pickled eggs and brined pigs feet floating cut in half in clear jars by the register of every gas station and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/culinary-classics-or-have-a-nice-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}