{"id":1888,"date":"2010-10-21T06:22:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T21:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2010-10-21T06:22:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T21:22:54","slug":"singing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"Singing Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was pretty fun &#8211; we ate lots of kushikatsu, with some very unique ones.  Maybe the strangest two were sekihan and takoyaki.  Very interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant also had an interesting system for the bill.  You can choose either 30% off your food bill, or all your drinks are just 100 yen.  We picked the 100 yen option &#8211; I think it was the obvious choice.  Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I never saw the bill so I can&#8217;t figure out if it was a good deal or not. <\/p>\n<p>After dinner it wasn&#8217;t even discussed &#8211; we just went straight to karaoke.  I had been there with almost the same crowd, and this time we sang a little bit less, and talked about medical coverage and welfare a little more.  Kind of an older crowd, so it was a popular topic.  I picked Simple Minds&#8217; &#8220;Don&#8217;t You (Forget About Me)&#8221; to sing, and it was a big hit.  I&#8217;ll have to start thinking about the next time &#8211; maybe I should even practice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was pretty fun &#8211; we ate lots of kushikatsu, with some very unique ones. Maybe the strangest two were sekihan and takoyaki. Very interesting&#8230; The restaurant also had an interesting system for the bill. You can choose either 30% off your food bill, or all your drinks are just 100 yen. We picked [&hellip;]<\/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":"","_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-us","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}