{"id":2942,"date":"2017-06-09T13:55:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2018-10-30T19:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T02:12:49","slug":"stubborn-appetites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/stubborn-appetites\/","title":{"rendered":"stubborn appetites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along 24th Street in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission District:<\/p>\n<p>I had a coffee meeting in fifteen minutes and figured that squirming from holding my bladder in wouldn&#8217;t be a professional look. So off I went on a hunt for a bathroom in the city. I ducked into a McDonalds, the first one I found that didn&#8217;t have a keycode or padlock.<\/p>\n<p>I open the bathroom door and the first person I see is a man eating a chicken burger. No extra fuss or pomp, just a dude enjoying a meal while in line for the urinal. Out of <em>all\u00a0<\/em>the places in the city, why would he choose to eat there? The line is short, the tables outside are empty, and there is no public shame in eating a chicken burger. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Singer\">Peter Singer<\/a> may say something differently about the morality of eating meat in general, but that&#8217;s another issue.)<\/p>\n<p>I could rack my head for potential stories and plot twists, but sometimes the simplest explanation is the truth &#8212; the guy was just hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along 24th Street in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission District: I had a coffee meeting in fifteen minutes and figured that squirming from holding my bladder in wouldn&#8217;t be a professional look. So off I went on a hunt for a bathroom in the city. I ducked into a McDonalds, the first one I found that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/stubborn-appetites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;stubborn appetites&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-Ls","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}