{"id":1099,"date":"2007-07-02T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2007-07-02T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T19:04:00","slug":"and-i-shouted-i-ate-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;.and I shouted, &quot;I ATE GOAT!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.upon returning to the office from lunch. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m adventurous with limits. I like to try new things, but I&#8217;m also a flippin&#8217; princess about what I do and don&#8217;t like. I can be exceedingly timid, and I usually sail right by the &#8220;Goat Curry&#8221; on the Taj Mahal buffet. But I took my IT co-worker there for lunch today, and he tried a small spoonful of everything. So after the first go-through (wherein I declared, &#8220;Nope. I can&#8217;t do it.&#8221;) I decided to nut up* and take a tiny piece of goat. With bone. (I&#8217;m also reeeeally not a gamer for meat on the bone IN sauces, soups and whatnot.)  It wasn&#8217;t bad! It wasn&#8217;t awesome and I&#8217;m not running out to the GoatMart or anything anytime soon, but I&#8217;m glad I tried it. After all, the selling point to me for that buffet is that you can sample a wide variety of things without committing to an entire plate of any one thing. And whatever was in the vegetables? Lit me up like a Roman Candle. Holy Toledo. The crazy thing about the spices is that they have a slow build, but the crescendo is enough to make your eyes pop out of your head. And after four bites in, you&#8217;re screwed, there&#8217;s no turning the spice bus around!<\/p>\n<p>The best part about dining there is the bottomless cups of chai tea&#8230;.. iced or hot&#8230;.. yummmmmmmy!  <\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, and the best part of my week? I&#8217;m only working two days. And since one of those days is half-over, dude, that&#8217;s even LESS time! I have already fooled myself into thinking I&#8217;m turning 40, so it&#8217;s great to re-correct myself and adjust to turning 39 on Friday. From what I hear, many people remain 39 for &#8211; well &#8211; years and years!<\/p>\n<p>*Can girls nut up, technically? I think so. I just know it&#8217;s more a boy-term, but I catch myself saying it in my head, so it applies when I&#8217;m applying it, I guess! You know me and the tautologies. I just told Kristin, &#8220;I believe what I believe!&#8221; and two weeks ago I declared, &#8220;All we can do, is what we can.&#8221; I am a walking bumpersticker machine, friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.upon returning to the office from lunch. I&#8217;m adventurous with limits. I like to try new things, but I&#8217;m also a flippin&#8217; princess about what I do and don&#8217;t like. I can be exceedingly timid, and I usually sail right by the &#8220;Goat Curry&#8221; on the Taj Mahal buffet. But I took my IT co-worker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}