{"id":657,"date":"2008-02-13T22:57:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T05:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/?p=657"},"modified":"2010-03-20T23:03:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T06:03:13","slug":"just-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/2008\/02\/13\/just-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Just For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rode over the hill into Hollywood for lunch yesterday, to a little hole in the wall hamburger joint on Santa Monica called Irv\u2019s. Irv\u2019s has been around just about forever (check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/eat+drink\/counter-intelligence\/the-last-burger-stand\/8936\/\">this LA Weekly feature<\/a> on it for details) and the food is pretty good too. But the reason I\u2019m posting about it is this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2008\/02\/irvs_cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2008\/02\/irvs_cartoon.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Just For Me!\" width=\"137\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-62\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sonia (the owner) apparently does these little plate illustrations for everyone, but I\u2019d never noticed it before. It made me smile because she captured me so perfectly and with such economy: big head, sunglasses, bald. It\u2019s not quite a police sketch artist kind of thing, but it\u2019s definitely me.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea why it touched me enough to make me save the plate, fold it up and put it in my pocket, bring it home, scan it, and then write about it here. It just did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rode over the hill into Hollywood for lunch yesterday, to a little hole in the wall hamburger joint on Santa Monica called Irv\u2019s. Irv\u2019s has been around just about forever (check out this LA Weekly feature on it for details) and the food is pretty good too. But the reason I\u2019m posting about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}