{"id":639,"date":"2008-11-17T23:42:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T03:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2008-11-17T23:42:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T03:42:32","slug":"frivolity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Frivolity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very well-behaved this weekend, attending several meetings to find good ideas for our school system.&nbsp; But tonight, we took a little side trip, having gotten a tip from a nice local girl at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerknurd.com\/stores\/nashville\">Flying Saucer<\/a> about where to find my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/152\/73\">elusive, rare, favorite brew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, we trekked off to the World Market in Hendersonville, and procured the only seven pints they had.&nbsp; We filled up the truck with BP at $1.85, and headed back into Nashville where we grabbed a late supper at John A&#8217;s, a comfortable little honky tonk with good food, cold beer, and live music.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday afternoon, after the meetings but before supper, we made a trip to the new Trader Joe&#8217;s in Green Hills so that I could stock up on my favorite Columbian coffee.&nbsp; Better than Starbucks, cheaper than Kroger coffee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.traderjoes.com\/\">Trader Joe&#8217;s<\/a> could make it in Oak Ridge, and would draw at least some traffic from Knoxville, since the quality is on par with places like Fresh Market, but their pricing far more attractive &#8212; cheaper even than Kroger or Wal-Mart on some items (like beer, coffee, and sesame seeds, to name just the things I took note of).<\/p>\n<p>I love Oak Ridge.&nbsp; But, we&#8217;ve got to improve the retail situation.&nbsp; It really bothers me to shop outside of our town, but there are so many things that we simply cannot purchase at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very well-behaved this weekend, attending several meetings to find good ideas for our school system.&nbsp; But tonight, we took a little side trip, having gotten a tip from a nice local girl at the Flying Saucer about where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=639\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}