{"id":14029,"date":"2012-04-26T20:21:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T02:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=14029"},"modified":"2016-09-18T09:09:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T06:09:41","slug":"a-generous-end-to-the-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-generous-end-to-the-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"A Generous End to the Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to go up to the casino tonight to put $10 in the slot machines as a thank you for letting me stay. Since the day had been so cheap, I decided to check out the restaurant offerings. Everything was either way too expensive or way too fast foodish. The only option left to investigate was the buffet, but at nearly $20 I was convinced I&#8217;d be turning around and having dinner at home.<\/p>\n<p>When I got to the entrance, I noticed a woman was standing there glancing at the people coming in. She came over to me and said, &#8220;Have you prepaid?&#8221; &#8220;No&#8230;&#8221; She then handed me a ticket for the buffet and said, &#8220;Pay it forward.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know if she won a free dinner or what, but wasn&#8217;t that nice of her?! I can&#8217;t believe I got a free dinner! I had some tasty baked chicken with mashed potatoes, veggies, and salad as a first course, then a couple of pieces of ravioli with some sausage and more salad for a second course. Third course was a small scoop of ice cream and a tiny brownie. Fourth course was half an orange and some honeydew melon. It had been a very, very, very long time since my sushi lunch and I was ravenous, but I don&#8217;t think I ate excessively at all. It definitely helped that dinner was free, so I didn&#8217;t feel I had to get my money&#8217;s worth. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The lady didn&#8217;t let me say much to her beyond thank you, but I was able to confirm that she&#8217;s not from Missouri. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to go up to the casino tonight to put $10 in the slot machines as a thank you for letting me stay. Since the day had been so cheap, I decided to check out the restaurant offerings. Everything was either way too expensive or way too fast foodish. The only option left to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,635,5,1365,3,16],"tags":[1473,794],"class_list":["post-14029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-north-america","category-rving","category-st-louis","category-travel","category-usa","tag-casinos","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}