{"id":303,"date":"2009-08-02T01:11:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T05:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/08\/02\/swill_at_saks.html"},"modified":"2009-08-02T01:11:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T05:11:01","slug":"swill_at_saks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/08\/02\/swill_at_saks.html","title":{"rendered":"Swill at SAKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSitting in my King position.<\/p>\n<p> Today was fun. I found (again) the pulpit at St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral. I remember now the pulpit from my first weeks in New York. I had no idea that the sculptors in charge of that work also made dozens if not hundreds of the now-worn marble monuments at Old Calvary. Calvary is a product of the Archdiocese of New York based at St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral which is across the street from my 181.<\/p>\n<p> I blew several pounds of coin on a rare and old book about Calvary, published in 1880-something. I can not wait to see it.<\/p>\n<p> Today I blew $4 on a cup of coffee. It was on the 8th floor at Saks Fifth Avenue, and while one might expect to blow hundreds upon hundreds of pennies and nickels out of one&#8217;s ass for a cup of coffee at such an extravagently marvelous  location I (as a coffee drinker) at the very least expected the coffee to be a grade of piss above diner-quality swill. But no. The conveyor belt service was charming but the coffee was swill.<\/p>\n<p> I have never felt worthy of St. Patrick&#8217;s. It seems like a competitive space, favored by Old Money, New Money, and Cash Cash Money. Some day I will make it to a service there but after 19 years in this town I still feel like God is too expensive for me. Please understand (dear God) that I am forever a child inside.<\/p>\n<p> Still no keyboard for this or any phone. I am spending money like it&#8217;s my job these days so I shall get to a new phone and keyboard soon. This prolonged qwerty-tapped text message makes the veins in my neck throb and the knuckles in my thumbs ache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in my King position. Today was fun. I found (again) the pulpit at St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral. I remember now the pulpit from my first weeks in New York. I had no idea that the sculptors in charge of that work also made dozens if not hundreds of the now-worn marble monuments at Old Calvary. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-image","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-4T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}