{"id":14,"date":"2006-04-17T18:43:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T00:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-04-17T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T00:43:20","slug":"still-in-saigon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Still In Saigon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pho in Fort Wayne, Indiana?\u00a0 Believe it!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recently a friend cancelled a lunch date with me at the last minute, and being at loose ends I decided to head south to check out the Saigon restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>In my last job I travelled frequently (continuously, it seemed) to Calgary, Alberta.\u00a0 Despite a reputation as a provincial cow town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, Calgary has a noodle shop on practically every corner.\u00a0 Delicious pho is to had all over town at prices that made me smile, being on per diem.<\/p>\n<p>So I had put the Saigon on my places to visit when I&#8217;d get the chance.\u00a0 I could never talk anyone into going with me.\u00a0 Some were afraid of anything they hadn&#8217;t eaten before at a national chain, others feared &#8216;crossing the tracks&#8217; to the south side of Fort Wayne, which everyone knows is riddled with crack houses and gangs and you will be shot in a drive-by shooting if you venture south of Jefferson Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>The timid are missing some of the best food to be had in Fort Wayne for 5 bucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pho in Fort Wayne, Indiana?\u00a0 Believe it!\u00a0 Recently a friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}