{"id":9054,"date":"2014-02-10T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:30:07","slug":"nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=9054","title":{"rendered":"Nuts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4956\" alt=\"userpic=compusaur\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpiccompusaur.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"94\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Today&#8217;s EaterLA brings news of <a href=\"http:\/\/la.eater.com\/archives\/2014\/02\/10\/the_shutter.php\">the closure of the last <em>Good Earth<\/em> restaurant in California<\/a>. This brings to mind a story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I was in college at UCLA in the late 1970s\/early 1980s, I used to hang around the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/collections\/search\/object\/nmah_690512\">UCLA Computer Club<\/a> (3514 Boelter Hall &#8212; we would receive mail addressed to &#8220;the messiest room on the 3rd floor, Boelter Hall&#8221;). Club members would regularly walk down to Westwood to get dinner &#8212; this was when Westwood was a much more vibrant college town than it is today (alas).<\/p>\n<p>At this time, there were two general interest bookstores in Westwood: the Pickwick Bookstore near Westwood and LeConte, and College Books (or was it University Books) near Westwood and Weyburn. College Books originally had a basement from which they sold textbooks, but by the early 1980s they had lease out that space to the Good Earth. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Good_Earth_%28restaurant_chain%29\">The Good Earth<\/a> was one of the restaurants regularly frequented by clubbies (there was also a Thai place behind Ships, but that&#8217;s a different story). The Good Earth seemingly had nuts of some variety in every dish one could order.<\/p>\n<p>One day we went to the Good Earth for dinner. As I recall, someone ordered their meal with no nuts. After this, everyone started requesting no nuts, eventually resulting in our singing &#8220;nuts, nuts, nuts, nuts&#8221; in the manner of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spam_%28Monty_Python%29\">the Monty Python spam routine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess you had to be there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s EaterLA brings news of the closure of the last Good Earth restaurant in California. This brings to mind a story&#8230; When I was in college at UCLA in the late 1970s\/early 1980s, I used to hang around the UCLA Computer Club (3514 Boelter Hall &#8212; we would receive mail addressed to &#8220;the messiest room <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=9054\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364],"tags":[63,150],"class_list":["post-9054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-memories","tag-ucla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054","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=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9058,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions\/9058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}