{"id":4158,"date":"2010-05-19T23:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T06:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2010-05-19T23:53:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T06:53:13","slug":"karmas-only-a-bitch-if-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=4158","title":{"rendered":"Karma&#8217;s only a bitch if you are."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christine, Shi, Chel and I hit up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepearlsd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pearl Hotel<\/a> for dinner, drinks and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepearlsd.com\/divein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dive-in Theatre<\/a> tonight. They were showing <em>Sex and the City: The Movie<\/em> poolside, so we thought we&#8217;d get together and watch it for the millionth time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shi:<\/strong> (looking at the menu) What&#8217;s a pom-us fritz?<br \/>\n<strong>Mayan:<\/strong> <em>Pommes frites<\/em>! It&#8217;s what you&#8217;re eating, crazy! French fries!<\/p>\n<p>I wish I wasn&#8217;t so mean about it. Karma&#8217;s only a bitch if you are (as I would find out later). How is she supposed to know what <em>pommes frites<\/em> is, or how to say it? This is the girl who thought we made up the word <em>aioli<\/em>, after all.<\/p>\n<p>I love it when I arrive for dinner and there&#8217;s a cocktail already waiting for me:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/thepearl-capecod.jpg\" alt=\"the pearl hotel - cape cod\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our <em>pommes frites<\/em> appetizer tasted like skinny In-N-Out fries (my favorite!):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/thepearl-pommesfrites.jpg\" alt=\"the pearl hotel - pommes frites\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The highlight of my evening&#8230; prosciutto-wrapped shrimp skewer with fig\/onion marinade:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/thepearl-prosciuttoshrimp.jpg\" alt=\"the pearl hotel - prosciutto wrapped shrimp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the lowlight of my evening&#8230; eating shit on the way back to my car with Chel. I tripped over the curb, scraped my elbows and knees, bruised my shins, and ripped a hole in my favorite jeans.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, Shi&#8230; You can call it &#8220;pom-us fritz&#8221; if you want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine, Shi, Chel and I hit up The Pearl Hotel for dinner, drinks and Dive-in Theatre tonight. They were showing Sex and the City: The Movie poolside, so we thought we&#8217;d get together and watch it for the millionth time. Shi: (looking at the menu) What&#8217;s a pom-us fritz? Mayan: Pommes frites! It&#8217;s what you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}