{"id":771,"date":"2005-09-15T10:37:43","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2005-09-15T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T17:37:43","slug":"over-the-counter-prise-out-the-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/15\/over-the-counter-prise-out-the-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Over the Counter: Prise Out the Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my best friends, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/kyobu\">David Boyk<\/a>, has a fantastic new <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycal.org\/article.php?id=19482\">column in today&#8217;s Daily Cal<\/a> about wacky food that he&#8217;s eaten.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve told him in the past, his columns read exactly how he talks &#8212; and each time I read them, I can very easily picture him saying these words to me. Dude, I think you&#8217;ve found your calling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also proud to report that I am the &#8220;friend&#8221; in this passage:<\/p>\n<p><i>And when I arrived late to a big, excellent Afghan dinner at Khyber Pass in Fremont and was handed a plate of soft beige meat, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask what it was. The friend handing them to me had been told they were curried lamb brains but didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe it, so he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother to tell me. Well, I can report that they taste pretty much like lamb, but soft and mushy.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my best friends, David Boyk, has a fantastic new column in today&#8217;s Daily Cal about wacky food that he&#8217;s eaten. As I&#8217;ve told him in the past, his columns read exactly how he talks &#8212; and each time I read them, I can very easily picture him saying these words to me. Dude, I think you&#8217;ve found your calling. I&#8217;m also proud to report that I am the &#8220;friend&#8221; in this passage: And when I arrived late to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-food","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-cr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}