{"id":695,"date":"2010-02-22T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/22\/i-just-want-one-slice\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:55:00","slug":"i-just-want-one-slice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/22\/i-just-want-one-slice\/","title":{"rendered":"I just want one slice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, standing in line to get some lunch, I order my usual:  1 slice of pepperoni pizza and a small rigatoni without sauce.  There&#8217;s no one else in line, so the two guys there both work on my order.   The pizza guy hands me a plate with two slices of pizza on it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;No,&#8221; I say, &#8220;Just one slice,&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;These are really small, it counts as one,&#8221; he replied.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They looked about the same size as they usually do, so I thanked him and went to collect my rigatoni.   The second guy hands it to me, then he and I both go down to the register so I can pay for my food.   I also get a bottle of green tea and he rings up the items &#8211; including 2 slices of pizza. Not one slice made up of two small pieces &#8211; 2 separate pieces at full price each.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There was a moment &#8211; a sliver to time too small to even complete a thought &#8211;  where I began to consider trying to explain.   Just as soon as I began to consider it, I realized that there were better things I could be doing with the rest of my life and I just took my lumps &#8211; and my second slice of pizza &#8211; and headed on my way.   <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There&#8217;s a lesson to be learned in there somewhere &#8211; but I don&#8217;t really know what it is.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6913097901389264887-1478029477665512662?l=thunderofwade.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, standing in line to get some lunch, I order my usual: 1 slice of pepperoni pizza and a small rigatoni without sauce. There&#8217;s no one else in line, so the two guys there both work on my order. The pizza guy hands me a plate with two slices of pizza on it. &#8220;No,&#8221; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}