{"id":422,"date":"2005-04-02T19:20:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=422"},"modified":"2005-04-03T00:51:03","modified_gmt":"2005-04-03T05:51:03","slug":"in-frisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/in-frisco\/","title":{"rendered":"In Frisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only old squares call this town Frisco, so it&#8217;s my place to do so. I even ate at the squarest restaraunt, Sears Fine Foods, which is right across the street from the extremely elegant yet tacky Sir Francis Drake where I am staying. What I like about Sears is that dispite (or perhaps because) that the ownership has changed, the place seems like a place where Damon Runyon would eat had he come to Frisco. Since it&#8217;s historic, it&#8217;s also tourist filled and overpriced &#8212; but I still end up there each trip out.<br \/>\nUnion Square is a major shopping area. Macy&#8217;s takes up one side of the square. On the front of Macy&#8217;s is a giant smoke breathing dragon advertising their new Gardens of the Dragon restaraunt. A very elaborate front to say the least.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m off to the Square to meet up with former Metalabist, Cheryl Friedman, who now lives here. Here in her case is not Union Square, but greater San Francisco.<br \/>\nFirst sign of being in San Francisco. In the airport, a guy was standing there with a sign for his pick up &#8220;Ms Easy Rider.&#8221; He was wearing a white biker doo-rag, black steel toed boots, denim, and colors for a riding group that I couldn&#8217;t quite identify. No sign of Ms Easy tho only her sign.<br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE<\/strong> Okay it&#8217;s not a restaraunt. The Gardens of the Dragon is an in store flower show with an asian theme. some giant statues of buddhas and saints throughout the store resulting in some interesting scenes. a giant saint stands in the midst of some slightly larger than life manekins in the new summer dress section. the manekins all have a comic but distracted look. couples pass the manekins to have their  small child picture taken with the saint (in Macy&#8217;s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only old squares call this town Frisco, so it&#8217;s my place to do so. I even ate at the squarest restaraunt, Sears Fine Foods, which is right across the street from the extremely elegant yet tacky Sir Francis Drake where I am staying. What I like about Sears is that dispite (or perhaps because) that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}