{"id":124344,"date":"2018-11-01T07:59:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=124344"},"modified":"2023-08-11T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T23:23:29","slug":"free-lunch-at-the-saudi-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=124344","title":{"rendered":"Free Lunch At The Saudi Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear the <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/royal-consulate-of-saudi-arabia-los-angeles\">Saudi embassy on Sawtelle Blvd<\/a> is offering a free catered kosher lunch today to rehabilitate their image. I admit I&#8217;m tempted. Still, not sure it is wise even though I left journalism a long time ago. <\/p>\n<p>From the Yelp reviews:<\/p>\n<p>* The smell of blood and bleach all over the place, could hear a journalist screaming in the background.  Wouldn&#8217;t recommend.<\/p>\n<p>* I was asked to take a seat and wait for my papers. Within moments the door shut behind me and several men attempted to slice my arm off with a bone saw. They had the audacity to have headphones in their ears, probably listening to Brahms. Luckily I managed to stun one of them and flee, but not before one of the men stole my jacket. Beware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear the Saudi embassy on Sawtelle Blvd is offering a free catered kosher lunch today to rehabilitate their image. I admit I&#8217;m tempted. Still, not sure it is wise even though I left journalism a long time ago. From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=124344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saudis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124344"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149825,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124344\/revisions\/149825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}