{"id":1527,"date":"2009-12-14T22:01:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2009-12-14T22:01:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T22:01:48","slug":"free-food-goes-straight-into-the-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Free food goes straight into the garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nToday marked the beginning of a habit for me to dump free food people insist on giving me straight into the bin after farewell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, althought I didn't quite do it this time (had to throw away at home):\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;No&quot;, 1, &quot;No&quot;, 2, &quot;Okay give me, thank you&quot;. &quot;Bye bye&quot;. Walk out, 3-point shot, boldly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe whole point is to avoid this &quot;come one, take take&quot; annoyance. It has nothing to do with being polite. Offense is unavoidable, but better offense than this &quot;Aiyah! Take Take, No No, Yes Yes&quot; time and energy vanity. The trick is to choose the route to least offense. After all, since they insist, it can be gathered that nobody wants it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNext, is that I should learn how to obtain free food when I actually want it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marked the beginning of a habit for me to dump free food people insist on giving me straight into the bin after farewell. So, althought I didn't quite do it this time (had to throw away at home): &quot;No&quot;, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}