{"id":6923,"date":"2012-12-27T16:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2012-12-27T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:24:34","slug":"altered-lives-pastrami-porn-kings-and-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6923","title":{"rendered":"Altered Lives: Pastrami, Porn, Kings, and Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5016\" alt=\"userpic=pastrami\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicpastrami.jpg\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Today&#8217;s news chum brings together a few stories of people or situations that have altered lives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A Pastrami Heaven<\/strong>. West Los Angeles is reeling is shock, after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-juniors-deli-20121226,0,6995139.story\">the announcement that Juniors is closing its doors on 12\/31<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/2012\/12\/26\/comin-through-the-rye-2\/\">more<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/los_angeles\/article\/juniors_deli_faces_abrupt_closure_dec._31#When:23:28:45Z\">more<\/a>). As usual, it is a landlord not trusting a new management team, and wanting to get more rent than a delicatessen and obtain. Never mind that this is one of the deli&#8217;s that Hollywood eats at, and scripts are written at. It is a true shock for the westside; there really is no where else to go (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.natenal.com\/\">Nate and Als<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollnrye.com\/\">Roll and Rye<\/a>? Please!) Now I was never that impressed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrsdeli.com\/\">Juniors<\/a>, but that&#8217;s because we&#8217;re spoiled in the valley with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentsdeli.com\/\">Brents<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Porn Life<\/strong>. An interesting article from Kveller, a set of Jewish parenting that explores the question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\/blog\/parenting\/my-husband-works-for-a-porn-site-and-im-okay-with-it\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20kveller%20%28Kveller.com%20%29\">What do you say to the kids when Daddy works for a porn website?<\/a> Actually, quite a well reasoned answer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Kingly Secretary<\/strong>. An interesting article from Mental Floss about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/156942\">an African King who is working as a secretary in a DC consulate to pay the bills<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably not what you think. She&#8217;s a secretary, drives a beat up Volvo, and is doing remarkable things for her kingdom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maps Affecting Lives<\/strong>. A while back I wrote an article about a treasure-trove of maps discovered in a house, and donated to the LA public library. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-map-house-20121226,0,2946680.story\">The Times has a nice follow-up piece on how those maps have changed a number of lives<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>Finale<\/em> (Loggins &amp; Messina): &#8220;Medley: Thinking of You&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s news chum brings together a few stories of people or situations that have altered lives: A Pastrami Heaven. West Los Angeles is reeling is shock, after the announcement that Juniors is closing its doors on 12\/31 (more, and more). As usual, it is a landlord not trusting a new management team, and wanting to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6923\">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":[56],"tags":[302,73],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","tag-pron","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","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=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}