{"id":2802,"date":"2009-06-12T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2009-06-12T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T08:00:27","slug":"in-the-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2802","title":{"rendered":"In the Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeydevilla.com\/2009\/05\/26\/fast-food-apple-pies-and-why-netbooks-suck\/\">Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have no horse in this race, or a smartphone for that matter, but any explanation of &#8220;the zone of suck&#8221; using fast-food apple pies is worthwhile reading, IMO.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Monarch Burger went to the trouble of making their apple pie look like a slice of homemade apple pie. While it seems appealing in its photo on the menu, it sets up a false expectation. <strong>It may <em>look<\/em> like a slice of homemade apple pie, but it certainly doesn\u2019t <em>taste<\/em> like one. Naturally, it flopped.<\/strong> Fast-food restaurants are set up to be run not by trained chefs, but by a low-wage, low-skill, disinterested staff. As a result, their food preparation procedures are designed to run on little thinking and no passion. They\u2019re not set up to create delicious homemade apple pies.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck I have no horse in this race, or a smartphone for that matter, but any explanation of &#8220;the zone of suck&#8221; using fast-food apple pies is worthwhile reading, IMO. Monarch Burger went &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}