{"id":60,"date":"2007-06-15T13:26:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T18:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-07-30T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T15:29:59","slug":"to-great-servers-who-weve-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"To great servers who we&#8217;ve lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was sitting at lunch today, I was thinking about how things can change at your favorite eating establishment when a favorite leaves.\u00a0 Not only that I had a good camaraderie with them because we seemed to like each other but I have respect for them and the job they do.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty awesome that there are places like MySpace where I can be \u201cfriends\u201d with them outside of their respective establishments.\u00a0 It\u2019s a place where the line between \u201ccustomer\u201d and \u201cserver\u201d can still be maintained, yet can still interact on a personal level.\u00a0 I have a few such \u201cfriends\u201d on MySpace and I am extremely proud that they allow me to be their \u201cfriend.\u201d (They know who they are\u2026). And not like (and I get to quote \u201cOffice Space\u201d here\u2026) \u201cI am just another asshole customer.\u201d\u00a0 In many ways, going to these places is made better by the personal interaction between us that kept me going back.\u00a0 I not going to profess that I am \u201cin love\u201d with any of these girls, but I liked them or else I wouldn\u2019t have gone back.\u00a0 I hope they liked me just the same and liked it when I came in for a visit.<\/p>\n<p>Now that they are gone from their respective establishments, I am a bit sad.\u00a0 However, I will hopefully continue to be \u201cfriends\u201d with them.\u00a0 I will continue to frequent these establishments in their absence and try to maybe gain a camaraderie with others but the ones I miss are all very special to me.\u00a0 And I hope that they feel almost the same way\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was sitting at lunch today, I was thinking about how things can change at your favorite eating establishment when a favorite leaves.\u00a0 Not only that I had a good camaraderie with them because we seemed to like each &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=60\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}