{"id":176,"date":"2008-08-11T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/share.cassity.us\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-08-11T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:23:05","slug":"176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/176\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.tinypic.com\/308kspz.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday Jessica and I went to get some dim sum in Chinatown. I guess dim sum isn&#8217;t really my thing. After we ate I went a few blocks over and caught a bus to Philadelphia. A man sat next to me. He was eating what looked like spam and ramen noodles and he was reading a small book that I think was titled &#8220;The Laws of Power&#8221; \u2014 that&#8217;s the type of person that pays $10 to take a bus to Philadelphia. Arrived, got a DC at the local Wawa, took a short cab ride to Dave&#8217;s, which also cost $10. They got a nice place. Dave, Leslie, Mike and I shot the shit, drank some beers and went for dinner, went to more bars. Did a pretty thorough walking tour of the city&#8217;s bar districts. A chubby collegiate looking fellow drinking Mountain Dew and reading a graphic novel thought my ID was too shitty to let us in our final destination, so we had a few more brews on Dave&#8217;s patio and called it quits. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday we ate at a hip brunch place. Mike and Dave tried the local meat loaf thing called scrapple. Watched some olympics that afternoon, BBQ&#8217;d, made a pretty decent rally to go to the Phillies game but were thwarted by our unwillingness to pay less than $50 per ticket. Went to an authentic  bar called Ray&#8217;s Happy Birthday room. Saw people waiting in line for cheesesteaks. Went to some other bars, the best one being a few blocks from Dave&#8217;s place. After that I was so full of beers, that I went to sleep. I sort of woke up hearing Dave and Leslie quietly arguing about how Leslie didn&#8217;t think it was necessary to play the Wilco album at 5am. Dave&#8217;s usually makes a pretty strong case, but I was on Leslie&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Took the bus back to NY on Sunday. This bus didn&#8217;t feature AC, but it wasn&#8217;t too terrible of a trip. Philadelphia \u2014\u00a0nice place. Met up with Jessica later that night. We were going to see Pineapple Express, but after reading the reviews thought that the Olympics would be a better watch. I thought it was too slow. I wonder what that swimmer guy was listening to on his ipod?<\/p>\n<p> &#8230; The blogs say Young Jeezy or Emenim. <\/p>\n<p><b>Books<\/b><br \/>\n<strong>The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao.<\/strong> Good book, I had to gloss over the spanish stuff, lots of Dominican history stuff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Jessica and I went to get some dim sum in Chinatown. I guess dim sum isn&#8217;t really my thing. After we ate I went a few blocks over and caught a bus to Philadelphia. A man sat next to me. He was eating what looked like spam and ramen noodles and he was reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/176\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}