{"id":1132,"date":"2025-07-30T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/30\/tin-pan-alley-buffet\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:40:47","slug":"tin-pan-alley-buffet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/30\/tin-pan-alley-buffet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tin Pan Alley Buffet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"959\" height=\"863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_2946.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_2946.jpg 959w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_2946-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_2946-768x691.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I saw this meme on facebook. Reminded me of a childhood memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Circa 1980 my paternal grandparents, known to us as Grandpa and Grandma Basil, took us out to eat at this restaurant called Tin Pan Alley, in Bradenton, Florida. I was a very finicky eater as a child. So when he ordered the buffet for all of us, I ended up with pretty much just a salad on my plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When we had all settled own at our table and started to eat, Grandpa noticed my plate. I could see the disappointment in his face. He told me, \u201cI could have bought a head of lettuce for twenty nice cents. Go get some meat.\u201d I complied. \u0000\u0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this meme on facebook. Reminded me of a childhood memory. Circa 1980 my paternal grandparents, known to us as Grandpa and Grandma Basil, took us out to eat at this restaurant called Tin Pan Alley, in Bradenton, Florida. I was a very finicky eater as a child. So when he ordered the buffet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_2946.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}