{"id":15538,"date":"2012-07-27T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=15538"},"modified":"2016-05-12T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:35:44","slug":"to-eat-or-not-to-eat-that-is-not-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=15538","title":{"rendered":"To Eat or Not to Eat?  That Is Not a Question."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hiroshima Moon<\/p>\n<p>When they announced the demolition of the Bennigans at Riverdale Mall, it surprised me because it felt like the whole mall just arrived a year or so ago. \u00a0It surprised me, but I wasn&#8217;t sad, because the Bennigan&#8217;s menu had gone from interesting to boring over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the imminent arrival of a Chick-fil-a to replace it intrigued me. \u00a0I&#8217;d never eaten in one of these deep south fried chicken sandwich places, but I looked forward to the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Not now. \u00a0Now I plan to walk in when they open, tell them I live close by, that my wife and I eat out once a week or so, and that they will never get our business, in spite of the fact that I love chicken. \u00a0Bigotry has no place in our community. \u00a0None. \u00a0Just ask the Anoka-Hennepin School Board or the Anoka High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hiroshima Moon When they announced the demolition of the Bennigans at Riverdale Mall, it surprised me because it felt like the whole mall just arrived a year or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=15538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To Eat or Not to Eat?  That Is Not a Question.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1980,100,3907,1885],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-on-the-news","category-politics","category-reimagining-faith","category-us-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39973,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538\/revisions\/39973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}