A good thing to do when your age becomes a round number is to look back over the years and consider your path – how far you’ve come, the trail of projects and people in your wake, and what direction you appear to be headed.<\/p>\n
Clearly, I was destined to eat a lot of donuts and southern food. But I don’t live in the south and have never visited.\u00a0If nothing else, I’ve been verbosely made aware that barbecue as I understand it is but a wan proxy for the genre.<\/p>\n
Another good thing to do at turning points in your life is to actually turn. Do something in a different direction. That’s what I’m going to do – go south, drive around a lot, and see what all these different types of barbecue are about. Starting tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A good thing to do when your age becomes a round number is to look back over the years and consider your path – how far you’ve come, the trail of projects and people in your wake, and what direction you appear to be headed. Clearly, I was destined to eat a lot of donuts … Continue reading “Today I am 40. OMG WTF BBQ”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}