{"id":718,"date":"2003-09-15T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=90"},"modified":"2003-09-15T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T06:00:00","slug":"casa-de-waffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Casa de Waffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Waffle House:<\/p>\n<p \/>I tried to deny my love for you, but I can&#8217;t any longer. If it&#8217;s not love, it&#8217;s at least a sick obsession. Which is pretty much the same thing to me, anyway.<\/p>\n<p \/>I had to come to terms with this realization last night while working on my travel journal. I had your website open in three different windows. I downloaded your menu. I listened to your CDs. I realized I had devoted paragraphs and paragraphs just to <i>you<\/i>. Then Ben and I discussed:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=small><i>ben<\/i>: i love waffle house<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: scattered smothered covered chunked topped diced peppered and capped<br \/><i>me<\/i>: holy shit!<br \/><i>me<\/i>: how do you know that???????<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: waffle house aficionado<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: capped is new &#8211; with mushrooms<br \/><i>me<\/i>: you are my new hero<br \/><i>me<\/i>: i love you, ben sherman<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: ask me anything about waffle house<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: i even know how to order<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: patty melt plate on texas, scattered, smothered and covered<br \/><i>me<\/i>: stop it, you&#8217;re scaring me<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: i want to meet you for coffee<br \/><i>me<\/i>: their coffee is terrible<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: wrong.<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: its served in small cups<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: so it&#8217;s the right temperature<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: and it&#8217;s always good.<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: you got a bad batch.<br \/><i>me<\/i>: you are so frightening me<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: it&#8217;s no espresso<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: but it&#8217;s good trucker coffee.<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: get this<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: next time you go<br \/><i>me<\/i>: i&#8217;m never going again!<br \/><i>me<\/i>: NEVER!<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: grilled cheese and tomato on texas toast plate, scattered, smothered, covered and diced.<br \/><i>me<\/i>: i&#8217;m assuming that last part is hash browns?<br \/><i>ben<\/i>: yes, with onions, cheese and tomatoes<br \/><i>me<\/i>: god. i&#8217;m turned on and retching at the same time.<br \/><i>me<\/i>: this is not a good feeling.<\/div>\n<p \/>Sigh. I&#8217;m smitten.<\/p>\n<p \/>Jenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Waffle House: I tried to deny my love for you, but I can&#8217;t any longer. If it&#8217;s not love, it&#8217;s at least a sick obsession. Which is pretty much the same thing to me, anyway. I had to come to terms with this realization last night while working on my travel journal. I had &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=718\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-bA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}