{"id":205,"date":"2007-09-10T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T11:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/1189423342414.html"},"modified":"2007-09-10T06:22:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T11:22:22","slug":"blogentry-new-sign-too-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] New sign too expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I was at a local seafood place picking up dinner, when I noticed on their very large menu board behind the counter that all the meals did, in fact, come with &#034;Freedom Fries.&#034;  As in, instead of French fries.  Remember?  Because the French aren&#039;t nice to us, or something.  I hadn&#039;t heard that expression since, what, the day it was suggested and then laughed out of existence?<\/p>\n<p\/>I figure that the owners of the place had to be pretty zealous in their patriotism to get the sign changed in the first place.  It wasn&#039;t whited out or hand written, it was a legitimate part of the sign.  That&#039;s fair. <\/p>\n<p\/>But the real question is now, six years later when it&#039;s little more than a joke too old for even David Letterman to tell, would you keep it up there?  Too expensive to change back?  Have they forgotten that it&#039;s there?  Or are they still just that zealous about their patriotism that they refuse to say the word French?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I was at a local seafood place picking up dinner, when I noticed on their very large menu board behind the counter that all the meals did, in fact, come with &#034;Freedom Fries.&#034; As in, instead of French fries. Remember? Because the French aren&#039;t nice to us, or something. I hadn&#039;t heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}