{"id":5402,"date":"2010-02-14T23:43:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2016-05-03T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:37:05","slug":"dinner-with-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5402","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with the Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon (Wild)<\/p>\n<p>Kate and I went into the city to Azia for my birthday dinner.\u00a0 An Asian fusion place, it has an interesting menu filled with crossover items like kannon steak and potatoes and an omakase (trust) sushi\/sashimi meal.<\/p>\n<p>The food was good, but the main thing we both noticed was that this kind of night time dining in the city is not our scene anymore.\u00a0 I mean this quite literally.\u00a0 We had a good 15 to 20 years on everybody&#8211;diners and staff&#8211;in the place.\u00a0 It was fun to see that whole aspect of life that was so crucial when we were younger.\u00a0 Reminds me that there are always couples out on the town, others in elementary school, some suffering through middle school.<\/p>\n<p>As we pass out of life&#8217;s phases, we often leave them behind, no longer staying in touch with pre-school or college, say, once we enter the work-a-day world.\u00a0 American society tends toward age segregation, a phenomena self-induced for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>A good birthday, 63 trips around the sun done.\u00a0 Or, as I heard on a TV show, &#8220;One year closer to the sweet release of death.&#8221;\u00a0 Cheery thought that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon (Wild) Kate and I went into the city to Azia for my birthday dinner.\u00a0 An Asian fusion place, it has an interesting menu filled with crossover items like kannon steak and potatoes and an omakase (trust) sushi\/sashimi meal. The food was good, but the main thing we both noticed was that this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dinner with the Kids<\/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":[60,65,18],"tags":[2203,296,111],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-family","category-holidays","tag-2203","tag-birthday","tag-kate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","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=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37046,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions\/37046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}