{"id":401,"date":"2007-06-18T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=401"},"modified":"2007-06-18T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T03:28:47","slug":"a-window-on-another-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/401","title":{"rendered":"a window on another world"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Next to the name of one regular, who has a habit of bringing in women he is not married to, is an instruction to make sure the man\u2019s wife has not booked a separate table for the same day.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/18\/business\/18opentable.html\">The New York Times, 6\/18\/07<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about the Times is, even when their articles are hopelessly behind the curve (you mean you can reserve a table OVER THE INTERNET???!!), there are sometimes little nuggets of gold on the inside.  The best of these come in the form of revelations about how &#8220;the other 1%&#8221; ((My dad <s>coined<\/s> used this phrase while we were biking this weekend in Weston, MA.  I like it.)) live.  In this case, we learn about a man who is so rich, his restaurants help make sure his wife doesn&#8217;t find out about his regular infidelities.  I&#8217;m lucky if the person at the Qdoba realizes I&#8217;ve been ordering the same thing once a week for two years!<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had this much fun learning about rich people since the Escapes article in which one fellow has a summer house in Phoenix that he keeps permanently air-conditioned so it would be cool if he decides to visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Next to the name of one regular, who has a habit of bringing in women he is not married to, is an instruction to make sure the man\u2019s wife has not booked a separate table for the same day.&#8221; The New York Times, 6\/18\/07. The great thing about the Times is, even when their articles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a window on another world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}