{"id":1111,"date":"2007-05-04T08:07:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T13:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2007-05-04T08:07:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T13:07:02","slug":"on-people-needing-hugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"On McDonald&#039;s and My Grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbor has started taking my grandmother to McDonald&#8217;s, if not on a daily basis then at least four or five times a week.<\/p>\n<p>To be frank I&#8217;m a little surprised that my grandmother goes.  McDonald&#8217;s&#8230; well, it&#8217;s never been her kind of restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother&#8217;s McDonald&#8217;s is an interesting place.  This is typical&#8211;&#8220;I had the best hamburger there I&#8217;ve ever had.  They use the leanest ground beef.  They make the hamburger the way you want it.  And it&#8217;s so <i>thick<\/i>.&#8221;  The words &#8220;best,&#8221; &#8220;leanest,&#8221; &#8220;thick,&#8221; and &#8220;the way you want it&#8221; aren&#8217;t words I&#8217;ve <i>ever<\/i> associated with McDonald&#8217;s.  In her mind, though, that&#8217;s McDonald&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you want &#8220;best&#8221; and &#8220;thick&#8221; and &#8220;the way you want it&#8221; try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveguys.com\/\">Five Guys Burgers and Fries<\/a>.  <i>That<\/i> is a hamburger to die for.  And it will probably harden your arteries, too.  But it&#8217;s so <i>good<\/i>&#8230;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s, though?  I&#8217;m glad my grandmother likes going.  I&#8217;m glad she thinks they&#8217;re high quality.  Even though they&#8217;re anything but.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbor has started taking my grandmother to McDonald&#8217;s, if not on a daily basis then at least four or five times a week. To be frank I&#8217;m a little surprised that my grandmother goes. McDonald&#8217;s&#8230; well, it&#8217;s never been her kind of restaurant. My grandmother&#8217;s McDonald&#8217;s is an interesting place. This is typical&#8211;&#8220;I had<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1111\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On McDonald&#039;s and My Grandmother&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[970,4093],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-five-guys","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}