{"id":746,"date":"2002-12-08T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2002-12-08T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2020-08-19T22:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:39:35","slug":"soprano-synchronicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2002\/12\/08\/soprano-synchronicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Soprano Synchronicity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the way back home from seeing Equilibrium, it was only 4:30 but both Lisa and I were very hungry all of a sudden. So a minor detour &#8211; an early lunch at the Wok&#8217;s Inn at Centennial Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The food there was alway great, only this time they had a new waitress who was getting at least one dish per table completely wrong. She was trying so hard, and getting flustered&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our case we ended up with &#8220;Orange Chicken&#8221; instead of &#8220;Orange Peel Beef&#8221;. I confess I was so hungry I ate most of it before we noticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing: Later this evening we were watching the season finale of &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221; on TV, and there was this scene where Tony goes to the door and it&#8217;s the chinese take-out guy. Tony says, &#8220;Did you check the order this time?&#8221; and the guy says &#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s all there&#8221; and he pays him and goes back to the table. He&#8217;s sitting down taking out the cartons and he exclaims, &#8220;#$%^@! They forgot the Orange Peel Beef again!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fortune in our cookie did not shed any light on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way back home from seeing Equilibrium, it was only 4:30 but both Lisa and I were very hungry all of a sudden. So a minor detour &#8211; an early lunch at the Wok&#8217;s Inn at Centennial Center. The food there was alway great, only this time they had a new waitress who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}