{"id":701,"date":"2010-11-03T05:07:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T09:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=701"},"modified":"2010-11-22T01:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T06:45:49","slug":"think-good-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/think-good-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Good Thoughts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, day 328 in the quest to get internet in the apartment, and no luck. We&#8217;ve aggressively followed up in every means possible &#8211; phone, email, web chat, in person. Please pray that we get connected soon!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, a little update from Halloween. To drown Brian&#8217;s sorrows, we went to a fabulous dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeoutabudhabi.com\/restaurants\/reviews\/12505-18-oz\">18oz, <\/a>the steakhouse at the One-to-One Hotel, only minutes from our apartment. At the bar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onetoonehotels.com\/dine_22_2.php\">Cubes <\/a>around the corner was a highly advertised Halloween party &#8211; the only solid one we could find actually on Halloween. It was&#8230;ummmm&#8230;interesting. The bartender&#8217;s interpretations of a costume were fake handlebar mustaches, black paper top hats (like you see at New Years) with &#8220;RIP&#8221; spray painted on, and a black long cape\/poncho with more silver spray paint. The crowd didn&#8217;t disappoint with everything from a carpenter to a Japanese fighter. Though, the women were predominantly devils.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight was the attempt they made on the decorations &#8211; scattering the floors with dead leaves, wrapping tables in torn up sheets and getting as many signs and banners as one could find in a party store. If only the music wasn&#8217;t horrible, we might have stayed a bit longer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember &#8211; <strong>be sure and email pictures <\/strong>so we can live vicariously! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, day 328 in the quest to get internet in the apartment, and no luck. We&#8217;ve aggressively followed up in every means possible &#8211; phone, email, web chat, in person. Please pray that we get connected soon! In the meantime, a little update from Halloween. To drown Brian&#8217;s sorrows, we went to a fabulous dinner&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/think-good-thoughts\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}