{"id":2900,"date":"2010-03-28T23:53:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T06:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2010-03-28T23:53:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T06:53:21","slug":"foodspotting-3-the-third-most-important-part-is-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"Foodspotting #3: The third most important part is the company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great dining experience is a combination of these three things: food, service and company.<\/p>\n<p>The company defines the experience.  If it&#8217;s great&#8230;the quality of food and service almost doesn&#8217;t matter.  It just needs to be adequate.  If the company is horrible, then the taste, the desperate attempts by the servers&#8230;anything&#8230;won&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>These are the qualities that make great company during dining:<\/p>\n<p>1. Shared interest in trying new foods<\/p>\n<p>2. Willingness to <i>share<\/i> dishes<\/p>\n<p>3. Good conversationalist.  Or at least the ability to be curious.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all!<\/p>\n<p>Awkwardly, I mentioned how my experience at Front Porch was not the greatest because the company that I was with.  He asked me how the current dining experience was like.  Without thinking, I blurted out bluntly, &#8220;So-so.&#8221;  Then I realized that I couldn&#8217;t apologize for the truth.  Because 1, 2, 3 were not fulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great dining experience is a combination of these three things: food, service and company. The company defines the experience. If it&#8217;s great&#8230;the quality of food and service almost doesn&#8217;t matter. It just needs to be adequate. If the company &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2900\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,24],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-7x7","tag-foodspotting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}