{"id":168,"date":"2007-08-31T13:17:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T12:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2007-09-06T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T12:32:12","slug":"an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"An apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s come to my attention that when I made <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=167\" title=\"No more food says fatish bloke!\">this statement<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0yesterday about not eating any longer in the staff restaurant\u00c2\u00a0my words could, in a certain light, be\u00c2\u00a0open to a small degree of accidental misinterpretation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0So in the interest of setting the record straight I need to add this very small condition.<\/p>\n<p>When J, S and R all decided an hour ago\u00c2\u00a0that the time was right for lunch and a visit to the restaurant was in order&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And when J and S queued for hot food (R,\u00c2\u00a0wise before the event, having\u00c2\u00a0brought\u00c2\u00a0sandwiches)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That I only joined them in the hot meal option\u00c2\u00a0out of a sense of <em>politeness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It would, after all, have been massively ill-mannered of me to sit with them &#8211; chatting about all manner of things (as we did)\u00c2\u00a0but\u00c2\u00a0with an empty place before me.<\/p>\n<p>I just feel that I need to make\u00c2\u00a0it clear that although I wasn&#8217;t exactly <em>forced<\/em> to go upstairs to the restaurant, and although I wasn&#8217;t literally <em>compelled<\/em> to eat from the restaurant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That &#8211; contrary to how this scene <em>could<\/em> have looked to an external observer &#8211; I was actually making\u00c2\u00a0myself\u00c2\u00a0eat with them out of a &#8211; perhaps misplaced &#8211; sense of&#8230; duty.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s the word, duty.<\/p>\n<p>And I only had very <em>small<\/em> quantities.<\/p>\n<p>In a manner of speaking.<\/p>\n<p>There, I hope that&#8217;s set the record straight and clarified a few things?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s come to my attention that when I made this statement\u00c2\u00a0yesterday about not eating any longer in the staff restaurant\u00c2\u00a0my words could, in a certain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}