{"id":3107,"date":"2008-10-29T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2008-10-29T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T01:26:00","slug":"but-is-it-good-for-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3107","title":{"rendered":"But Is It Good For The Soul?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was tired of vegetable soup. Vegetable soup for lunch the last two days. Vegetable soup for dinner the last two days. I wanted Chicken in the Pot.<\/p>\n<p>So, I attempted to find a Jewish Deli in Dallas. I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/chowhound.chow.com\/topics\/419957\" target=\"_blank\">the Chowhound Page<\/a>, and started researching. My first thought was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cindisnydeli.com\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Cindi&#8217;s NY Deli<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cindisnydeli.com\/map.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">the downtown location<\/a>, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/maps?city=Dallas&#038;state=TX&#038;address=306+S.+Houston+St.\" target=\"_blank\">near the hotel<\/a>, closed at 3pm. So, based on what I read, I trudged off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edsdeli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed&#8217;s Deli<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Being cheap, I wanted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">avoid the tollway<\/a>, so <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&#038;saddr=2201+N+Stemmons+Fwy,+Dallas,+TX+75207&#038;daddr=32.82825,-96.800537+to:Walnut+Hill+Ln+to:17062+Preston+Rd,+Dallas,+TX+75248&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=%3B%3BFXa19QEdkug6-g%3B&#038;mra=dpe&#038;mrcr=0&#038;mrsp=1&#038;sz=11&#038;via=1,2&#038;sll=32.895732,-96.825943&#038;sspn=0.420302,0.74913&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=32.895732,-96.825943&#038;spn=0.210152,0.374565&#038;z=12\" target=\"_blank\">I took surface streets<\/a> along Preston Blvd. Went through what appeared to be pricey neighborhoods (with lots of McCain Palin signs, and only two Obama signs). <\/p>\n<p>When I got to the Deli, it was in this large shopping center. Not that fancy, even plainer than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abesdeli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abe&#8217;s in Northridge<\/a>. I ordered the Chicken in the Pot&#8230; only to be told they were out of chicken. So I had what was called a mishmash soup: chicken soup with chicken pieces, kreplach, matzo balls, noodles, and rice. The soup was kinda-bland, although it did the trick on getting stuff moving. The place was certainly no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentsdeli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brent&#8217;s<\/a> or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weilersdeli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weiler&#8217;s<\/a>&#8230; but what should I expect&#8230; it&#8217;s Texas!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m back. One more day of the conference tomorrow, and I fly back to LA Tomorrow evening. Have you guessed what song I&#8217;ll be posting tomorrow yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was tired of vegetable soup. Vegetable soup for lunch the last two days. Vegetable soup for dinner the last two days. I wanted Chicken in the Pot. So, I attempted to find a Jewish Deli in Dallas. I went to the Chowhound Page, and started researching. My first thought was Cindi&#8217;s NY Deli, but <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3107\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","category-travel","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}