{"id":7306,"date":"2012-05-15T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2012-05-15T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:47:22","slug":"portland-juan-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=7306","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR &#8211; Juan Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is what it is,&#8221; people say all the time these days. \u00a0Juan Colorado fits into that bracket, if you&#8217;re looking for typical Americanized Mexican foods at a reasonable price.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in our neighborhood, so we get in there on occasion, and last nite, it was just what the doctor (er, wife) ordered.<\/p>\n<p>One of my &#8220;jokes&#8221; about Taco Bell is actually my admiration for how they have taken the same five ingredients, made them into different shapes, slapped a made-up Mexican sounding name on it, and called it &#8220;new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such is my taste for the typical US versions of Mexican food, so I get something silly, unless we are at someplace really authentic. \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2012\/03\/portland-taco-cart-18330-se-stark-st\/\">to wit<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So I went with one of those reconfigured shapes of the regular ingredients, and had the Mexican &#8220;pizza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No complaints, except it was really filling and a lot of it made it home &#8211; but mysteriously vanished sometime during my absence today. \u00a0Dog? Cat? Wife?<\/p>\n<p>Juan Colorado is a-ok.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Juan1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7307\" title=\"Juan1\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Juan1.png\" alt=\"Juan Colorado Mexican Pizza\" width=\"436\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/24\/281852\/restaurant\/Southwest\/Juan-Colorado-Portland\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/281852\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Juan Colorado on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is what it is,&#8221; people say all the time these days. \u00a0Juan Colorado fits into that bracket, if you&#8217;re looking for typical Americanized Mexican foods at a reasonable price. It&#8217;s in our neighborhood, so we get in there on occasion, and last nite, it was just what the doctor (er, wife) ordered. One of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=7306\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portland, OR &#8211; Juan Colorado<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,22],"tags":[2844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}