{"id":485,"date":"2006-07-04T00:46:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T00:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2006-07-04T00:46:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T00:46:46","slug":"absolut_birthday_shindig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/absolut_birthday_shindig\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolut Birthday Shindig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was about my fren&#8217;s 3rd 30th Birthday, not just boozing!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/absolutevening.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/absolutevening.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/absolutevening-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>But tis&#8217; purty! <\/em><br \/>\nThat happened AFTER dinner.  Dinner was in the W&#8217;s restaurant.  Spiffy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/wsteak.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/wsteak.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/wsteak-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>This was the NY Steak from the restaurant that uses only &#8220;organic&#8221; ingredients. <\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/wduck.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/wduck.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/wduck-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>This is the duck.  It was really good.  Not like duck in Chinese restaurants&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/whotel.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/whotel.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/whotel-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><em><br \/>\nThis is the W Westwood.  It&#8217;s hidden along a line of other high rise condo buildings. <\/em><br \/>\nWhen I arrived, I went straight to the pool where there&#8217;s a bar.  Behind this there&#8217;s a small pool with a bunch  of cabanas.  Since this is not THAT kind of blog, I refrained from pix.  Solly!  They charged US$12 for a Sapphire Tonic but it was the biggest Sapphire Tonic I ever had!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/wpoolbar.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/wpoolbar.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/wpoolbar-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>They even got free Wi-Fi!  Waaaaaah! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was about my fren&#8217;s 3rd 30th Birthday, not just boozing! But tis&#8217; purty! That happened AFTER dinner. Dinner was in the W&#8217;s restaurant. Spiffy. This was the NY Steak from the restaurant that uses only &#8220;organic&#8221; ingredients. This is the duck. It was really good. Not like duck in Chinese restaurants&#8230; This is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/absolut_birthday_shindig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Absolut Birthday Shindig&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-7P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}