{"id":2048,"date":"2008-05-09T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2008-05-09T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T20:12:10","slug":"its-such-a-perfect-day-im-glad-i-spent-it-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-such-a-perfect-day-im-glad-i-spent-it-with-me","title":{"rendered":"It’s such a perfect day, I’m glad I spent it with me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I decided to have lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, A Mano<\/a>, an upscale Neapolitan pizza place in Ridgewood, NJ. I got there around 2pm, in the midst of a typhoon (nice day to start our Friday summer hours: 50 degrees and pouring). I opened the door, and saw there wasn’t a single customer<\/em> inside. A waitress stepped out from the back office. I asked, “You open?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” she said. “Come on in.”<\/p>\n

I sat down at a table, ordered my favorite pizza (the A Mano: bufula mozzarella, prosciutto di Parma, arugula, cherry tomatoes, shaved gran cru, and extra virgin olive oil), watched the cook head over to the wood-burning oven to get my pie started, and listened to nobody.<\/p>\n

I thought, “Of the top 10 things I love in this world, I have to include<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. fantastic NJ pizza and<\/li>\n
  2. not having to listen to another human being.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The pizza didn’t take them too long. It was as wonderful as I expected. As I finished it, the waitress came by to ask if I needed anything.<\/p>\n

    I should’ve asked her to play a Sam Cooke CD on an infinite loop. That’s about the only way the moment would’ve been better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Today I decided to have lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, A Mano, an upscale Neapolitan pizza place in Ridgewood, NJ. I got there around 2pm, in the midst of a typhoon (nice day to start our Friday summer hours: 50 degrees and pouring). I opened the door, and saw there wasn’t a single … <\/p>\n

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