{"id":56,"date":"2003-01-28T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2003-01-28T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-06-20T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T15:35:47","slug":"january-28-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"January 28, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a snowy Tuesday evening, January 28th, in Royal  Oak. Dinner was wonderful at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damatos.com\/dam\/\" target=\"_blank\">D&#8217;Amato&#8217;s<\/a> (222 South Sherman) &#8211; <a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/tuna-done-right.jpg\">Patrick&#8217;s Ahi<\/a> was very lightly seared, to Mark&#8217;s delight (long story). I (Jeremy) had  one of the best NY Strips ever, but it seems as though my Cab was no  match for Barry&#8217;s Zin! Afterward, we made our way through the adjoining  doorway to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damatos.com\/gng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Goodnight  Gracies Bar<\/a> next door for post din-din smoking festivities. Some  rather interesting people showed up through the course of the night: the  voice-less woman who tried to have some of Barry&#8217;s drink (not in a good  way); and Todd, who revealed insights into the &#8220;other side&#8221; of Patrick.  Mark the photographer has delivered the pics below! Officially in  attendance that day were Barry, Patrick, Mark, Jeremy, Todd, and The  Voiceless Woman.<br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/barry-enjoying.jpg\">Barry, just  plain relaxing.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/barry-jeremy-dining.jpg\">Barry  and Jeremy, eating some damned fine dead cow.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/barry-jeremy-patrick-todd.jpg\">Todd,  Patrick, Jeremy, and Barry, posing like Steely Dan after a show (but  check out the ghostly face to the left edge of the picture!).<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/barry-jeremy-scotch-toast.jpg\">Barry  and Jeremy in a manly toast.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/barry-jeremy-toasting.jpg\">Barry  and Jeremy in a not-at-all-manly toast.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/jeremy-barry-patrick-dining.jpg\">Barry,  Jeremy (eating as usual), and Patrick. Where the heck is Mark??<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/jeremy-mark.jpg\">Ah, here he  is&#8230; Jeremy and Mark.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/jeremy-pensive2.jpg\">Here&#8217;s  Jeremy being &#8211; and this is Mark&#8217;s word &#8211; pensive.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/mark-toasting.jpg\">Mark,  toasting. You just never get enough pictures of the person who brought  the camera. Thanks, Mark!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/patrick-and-mystery-hand.jpg\">Patrick  and a &#8220;mystery hand&#8221;, although I think it&#8217;s Jeremy&#8217;s.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/pics\/01-03\/salud.wav\">A special treat &#8211; a  WAV file from the evening. Mark&#8217;s instruction, Jeremy&#8217;s &#8220;Salud!&#8221;, and  Patrick&#8217;s infectious laughter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a snowy Tuesday evening, January 28th, in Royal Oak. Dinner was wonderful at D&#8217;Amato&#8217;s (222 South Sherman) &#8211; Patrick&#8217;s Ahi was very lightly seared, to Mark&#8217;s delight (long story). I (Jeremy) had one of the best NY Strips ever, but it seems as though my Cab was no match for Barry&#8217;s Zin! Afterward, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokenring.org\/ring\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}