{"id":515,"date":"2011-05-28T21:29:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T01:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:56:36","slug":"over-a-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Over a Barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left Tallahassee on Friday on our way to Ft. Lauderdale to see friends.\u00a0 Stopped in Orlando where Carolyn&#8217;s sister, Charlene has been spending the week with her daughter, Melanie.\u00a0 Friday evening at Cheesecake Factory and, as usual it was good.\u00a0 Saturday, however, found us meeting again as a foursome at Cracker Barrel.\u00a0 Our wait person was Julie and i can&#8217;t remember meeting a sweeter, more personable CB employee.\u00a0 We ordered coffee all around and once that came fussed about what to eat.\u00a0 Friday night Carolyn and i had split both our entree and a slice of cheesecake.\u00a0 Amazingly when Saturday morning came we were hungry again.\u00a0 We split a breakfast.\u00a0 This is where it got weird.\u00a0 Our wait person had just disappeared.\u00a0 I kept craning my neck looking for her, nowhere to be found.\u00a0 Fifteen, twenty minutes, no girl.\u00a0 Finally I saw that she also had tables on the other side of a divider.\u00a0 All in all a good meal, but nearly ruined by a system that was not performing as well as it should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left Tallahassee on Friday on our way to Ft. Lauderdale to see friends.\u00a0 Stopped in Orlando where Carolyn&#8217;s sister, Charlene has been spending the week with her daughter, Melanie.\u00a0 Friday evening at Cheesecake Factory and, as usual it was good.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}