{"id":3227,"date":"2023-11-28T10:31:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2023-11-28T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:34:41","slug":"i-ate-a-rubber-chicken-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=3227","title":{"rendered":"I ate a rubber-chicken once"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-10.11.55-AM-1024x381.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-10.11.55-AM-1024x381.png 1024w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-10.11.55-AM-470x175.png 470w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-10.11.55-AM-768x285.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-10.11.55-AM-1536x571.png 1536w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-10.11.55-AM-624x232.png 624w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-27-at-10.11.55-AM.png 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a meeting in Honolulu and was hungry. I found myself in one of those Chinatown little shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ordered a &#8220;chicken-rice&#8221; plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out came a plate with white rice and half of a chicken that literally looked like a rubber chicken. The skin was an old yellow color that those who are familiar with chicken will understand what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took a bite and could not take a second. Those who know me know that I&#8217;m not a fussy eater at all. I pretty much eat anything. I love cafeteria food during my college years because I was happy I didn&#8217;t have to cook or wash dishes. So, this dish was really bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I quickly ordered another dish. This time, it was a noodle bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took the chicken dish home and threw it away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes I think there is no need to make a fuss about everything. Everyone is trying to make a living. Food is not so important that it has to become a tit for tat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a waitress brings me a wrong dish. I&#8217;m ok with it too. Why create a fuss? There are more important things in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a meeting in Honolulu and was hungry. I found myself in one of those Chinatown little shops. I ordered a &#8220;chicken-rice&#8221; plate. Out came a plate with white rice and half of a chicken that literally looked like a rubber chicken. The skin was an old yellow color that those who are familiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[622,621,488,8],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicken-rice","tag-chinatown","tag-food","tag-honolulu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}