{"id":4507,"date":"2010-08-08T22:20:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T03:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2010-08-08T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T03:26:59","slug":"havent-we-met-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=4507","title":{"rendered":"Haven&#8217;t We Met Before?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, the server we had at Bonefish Grill the other night turned out to be an old poker acquaintance.  After he came to our table the first time, I told Brian that I thought he looked familiar.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just thinking the same thing,&#8221; Brian confessed.<\/p>\n<p>Then it came to me, &#8220;I know where we know him from!  Poker!  Let&#8217;s ask when he comes back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking Blue Collar because I didn&#8217;t go back in my memory far enough.  Bill actually said we played poker together at Fingers.  That was over six years ago!  He&#8217;d moved away to Denver and then come back since then.  What a happy coincidence that we got placed in his section!<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I went through my 2004 pictures and found this photo I had taken of Bill when we were playing together at the same table at Fingers.  I have always been a picture freak so not a moment passes without being captured for posterity.  <\/p>\n<p>So everyone, meet Bill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/93090\/\"  title=\"Bill by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/1\/93090_dc867f03d5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Bill\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, the server we had at Bonefish Grill the other night turned out to be an old poker acquaintance. After he came to our table the first time, I told Brian that I thought he looked familiar. &#8220;I was just thinking the same thing,&#8221; Brian confessed. Then it came to me, &#8220;I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[1132,2483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}