{"id":1173,"date":"2006-10-12T13:02:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2012-11-13T02:27:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T06:27:49","slug":"bad-killjoy-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1173\/bad-killjoy-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar-B-Q at the Georgia National Fair, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bar-B-Q<\/a>
\nBar-B-Q at the Georgia National Fair, 2006<\/strong>
\nView On White<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cox's<\/a>
\nCox’s Bar-B-Q at the Georgia National Fair
\nView On White<\/a><\/p>\n

Bad, killjoy me.<\/p>\n

This is just to let you see how dumb I am. As we walked through the thick sweet Bar-B-Q smoke, Marty said, “I want that! That looks great!” And me, what did I say but, “I’m scared of fair food.” So what did Marty end up with but an expensive bland hot dog.<\/p>\n

The next day he mentioned again how that bar-b-q had looked good and I said, “Why didn’t you get it?” and he replied, “because you said no.” I said, “I didn’t say no.” He said, “You said you’re scared of fair food.” I said, “Yes, but I didn’t mean you shouldn’t get it!” He failed to see the distinction.<\/p>\n

I go back and look at this picture and think Marty and these people were right. That looked like some good bar-b-q. Oddly enough, had we been way out on the road in some other state I would probably have said, “Sure, great!” But because we weren’t on the road, I said, “I’m scared of fair food.” I even believe there was a sign on this place that said it was a local establishment. And as you can see there are tables inside and they are filled with people. But, no, I was in, “I’m scared of fair food” knee jerk reaction mode.<\/p>\n

Just like I said to H.o.p., “No, you can’t play any of the fair games. They’re all rigged.” What’s wrong with playing a rigged game if you know that it’s rigged and you don’t mind blowing a few dollars? Had we been out on the road in some far state, I would probably have said, “Sure, great!” because I’m being a tourist and I’m prepared to be bilked as a tourist as long as you treat me nicely and entertain me while bilking me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bar-B-Q at the Georgia National Fair, 2006 View On White Cox’s Bar-B-Q at the Georgia National Fair View On White Bad, killjoy me. This is just to let you see how dumb I am. As we walked through the thick sweet Bar-B-Q smoke, Marty said, “I want that! That looks great!” And me, what did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[444,324],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-georgia-fair","tag-outside-the-perimeter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}