{"id":8600,"date":"2013-01-25T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2013-01-25T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:53:13","slug":"grand-canyon-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8600","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Canyon.  Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor note \u2013 I am currently traveling and will be mostly posting reviews that I left unfinished for one reason or another, while building up a repertoire of the new places I hit!\u00a0 There will also be reviews from some new reporters we have signed up).<\/p>\n<p>I was on my way back to the left coast from a business trip to Dallas;\u00a0 Mrs. Burgerdogboy had often expressed a desire to see the Grand Canyon, and my life is all about making her dreams come true! (Happy wife, happy life!) \u00a0 So I was going to have her fly down and meet me, pick her up at the PHX airport, have a romantic sojourn at this special spa hotel I know in Sedona, and then go up to the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out she was busy at home with one of her \u00a0friends, and couldn\u2019t make it.\u00a0\u00a0 I should have known, every time I book an expensive hotel for us, something goes awry!<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I spent a nite anyway, had a bottle of wine, a hot tub and massage before heading up to the big canyon.\u00a0 And I just have to say, who the heck was President when they built this thing?\u00a0 What a waste of money!\u00a0 Just a big ditch, good for spittin\u2019 in, peein\u2019 in, and yellin\u2019 in.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/grand-canyon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8609\" title=\"grand canyon\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/grand-canyon-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor note \u2013 I am currently traveling and will be mostly posting reviews that I left unfinished for one reason or another, while building up a repertoire of the new places I hit!\u00a0 There will also be reviews from some new reporters we have signed up). I was on my way back to the left&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8600\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Grand Canyon.  Huh?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600"}],"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=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}