{"id":18935,"date":"2025-11-18T00:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18935"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:43:22","slug":"the-table-by-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18935","title":{"rendered":"The Table By The Window"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went to a restaurant by myself and had a nice window seat. The server asked if I\u2019d move near the kitchen for a big family. I refused. He looked uneasy and said, \u201cOK.\u201d I was speechless when the mom of the family came up to me and said, \u201cWow\u2026 you must really need this seat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I blinked, unsure what she meant. She didn\u2019t sound rude, but it wasn\u2019t exactly a compliment either.<br>Promoted Content<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She smiled awkwardly and added, \u201cI mean\u2026 people usually don\u2019t say no when it\u2019s for kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her voice was calm, not accusing, but it stung anyway. I forced a tight smile and said, \u201cI just wanted some quiet. Long day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She looked at me for a second longer than normal, nodded, and returned to her family, who were now crowded into a couple of smaller tables in the middle of the room. The kids were squirming, the dad looked tired, and the waiter avoided my eyes when he passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a restaurant by myself and had a nice window seat. The server asked if I\u2019d move near the kitchen for a big family. I&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":191,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18937,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935\/revisions\/18937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}