{"id":646,"date":"2005-03-04T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T23:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/03\/04\/they-see-a-plate-of-them-and-weep\/"},"modified":"2005-03-04T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T23:08:28","slug":"they-see-a-plate-of-them-and-weep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/646","title":{"rendered":"They see a plate of them and weep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent three hours today in front of a hot griddle at Kentucky School for the Deaf making pancakes for the Danville Rotary Club. Once a year I adopt my little-known identity as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodtimeline.org\/index.html\">the greatest fried-foods artist since Neolithic times<\/a>. Usually this annual fundraising event is scheduled around the middle of February, which enables me to show off by making heart-shaped pancakes. This year the timing was off, but did that stop me?\n<\/p>\n<p>Modesty eludes me when it comes to my Rotary pancakes. I suppose they can only be described as perfect. Just ask any of my numerous pupils (the community&#8217;s best and brightest). That they hold me in total, ring-kissing awe on this particular day allows them to act like they don&#8217;t know me the rest of the year.\n<\/p>\n<p>As far as Dana is concerned, it just makes me smell like grease.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the sorrow of genius&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent three hours today in front of a hot griddle at Kentucky School for the Deaf making pancakes for the Danville Rotary Club. Once a year I adopt my little-known identity as the greatest fried-foods artist since Neolithic times. Usually this annual fundraising event is scheduled around the middle of February, which enables me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17,26,29,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}