{"id":591,"date":"2008-09-01T04:36:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T12:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=591"},"modified":"2009-09-25T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:30:05","slug":"tora-tora-tora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"<em>Tora!  Tora!  Tora!<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip made a surprise appearance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycakessandiego.com\/\">Babycakes<\/a> yester-day.  When I called him earlier, he gave no hint that he was in San Diego (as opposed to the Solipsistic Bay Area).  During the course of our conversation, I walked from my home to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycakessandiego.com\/\">Babycakes<\/a>.  I inferred from the noises from his end that he was running errands in his car.  At some point, he was heard ordering coffee.  Then I spotted him in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycakessandiego.com\/\">Babycakes<\/a>; he had ordered the coffee <em>there<\/em>.<\/p> <p>Phillip hadn't been told of my mutton-chop sideburns, but now understands indeed what sort of change to my appearance has been effected such that a few people have since failed to recognize me. (For his part, Phillip has grown a mustache and goatee.)<\/p> <p>Setting aside further discourse on what is and should be called <q>the Midwest<\/q>, I guess that the largest part of our conversation involved politics. (Phillip and I disagree on many issues, but neither of us looks forward to the next Administration, as we both see the two major-party candidates as each a technocratic centrist not <em>really<\/em> all that much different from his opponent.) We also talked about mutual friends, at least one of whom Phillip hopes to rope into hanging-out somewhere during his visit, about relatives, about the changes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycakessandiego.com\/\">Babycakes<\/a>, about computers, and about hats.<\/p> <p>Our conversation continued until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycakessandiego.com\/\">Babycakes<\/a> closed; we went <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycakessandiego.com\/\">thence<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/citydeli.com\/\">City Deli<\/a> for a late dinner.  Afterwards, we walked back to where he'd parked and talked until about 01:40.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phillip made a surprise appearance at Babycakes yester-day. When I called him earlier, he gave no hint that he was in San Diego (as opposed to the Solipsistic Bay Area). During the course of our conversation, I walked from my home to Babycakes. I inferred from the noises from his end that he was running [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[216,84,333],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-babycakes","tag-hillcrest","tag-phillip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}