{"id":14559,"date":"2012-05-11T09:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=14559"},"modified":"2016-09-18T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T08:29:26","slug":"killing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/killing-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am at a Starbucks in Mechanicsville, VA. Let me pause for just a minute to say that I have always loved the name of this town; it sounds like a Fisher-Price little people play set. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I had breakfast at the Cracker Barrel next door, my first and most definitely not last time having breakfast at that chain. Since I don&#8217;t eat eggs, I usually end up ordering pancakes for breakfast. By the time I add on some protein and a tip, breakfast comes in around $13, and I always end up throwing away half the pancakes. At Cracker Barrel, I was able to order their hash brown casserole and turkey sausage side combo by itself, which made for a reasonably portioned and very tasty breakkie with a good balance of carbs and protein. Their coffee was really good, too! The tab was $6 and I added a $2 tip.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be heading into Richmond shortly to have the laptop battery replaced. I found the perfect place to spend the afternoon and hope that it&#8217;s as great as the reviewers claim. As a hint, it&#8217;s considered Virginia&#8217;s answer to the Met. That&#8217;s a major promise and I&#8217;m curious to see if the comparison is accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am at a Starbucks in Mechanicsville, VA. Let me pause for just a minute to say that I have always loved the name of this town; it sounds like a Fisher-Price little people play set. \ud83d\ude42 I had breakfast at the Cracker Barrel next door, my first and most definitely not last time having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1516,635,1298,5,3,16,612],"tags":[794],"class_list":["post-14559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanicsville","category-north-america","category-petersburg","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","category-virginia-usa","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559","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=14559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}