{"id":400,"date":"2008-05-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=400"},"modified":"2008-05-28T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T15:00:00","slug":"mcdonalds-restaurant-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2008\/05\/28\/mcdonalds-restaurant-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonalds Restaurant Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/McD.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since Mr. Morgan Spurlock made his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0390521\/\">indicting film <\/a>on fastfood culture and the health deficits, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/mcdonalds.com\/\">McDonalds<\/a> has responded incredibly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a fan. I usually felt lethargic after eating a 1\/4 pounder. I prefer to support indie restaurants rather than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterworldshopper.com\/r-fastfood.html\"><\/a>the franchises. And about 9 years ago they had McWraps which tasted more like the name than I think they wanted them to.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I had to kill an hour in Cob\u00e1n with my kids while Amber had her teeth worked on. I took them to McDonalds where they had a blast in the kids park. I felt compelled to order something, so I got a crispy chicken sandwich. The whole wheat bun impressed me.<\/p>\n<p>I use the golden arches as a landmark frequently. Just last week as I arranged for friends to go on a tour, I had the van pick them up at McDonalds in Cob\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>My wife worked as a drive-thru McHottie when she was a teenager, taking breakfast and coffee orders with her burgandy button-up shirt, visor, and headset on.<\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago, I got really sick while in Guatemala City. I spent 2 hours in a McDonalds while a short term mission team visited the cathedral and national palace. I just bought water and used their pristine bathrooms (over and over and over and over again). Man, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever loved a toilet like I loved that toilet. And the toilet paper supply!<\/p>\n<p>I guess I just want to take a break from bashing &#8220;Rotten Ronnies&#8221; and say that there are times in my life when I am grateful for the familiar, clean, accessible, dominating, poisonous, economic powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>OK, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterworldshopper.com\/r-fastfood.html\">break&#8217;s over<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Mr. Morgan Spurlock made his indicting film on fastfood culture and the health deficits, I think McDonalds has responded incredibly. I&#8217;ve never been a fan. I usually felt lethargic after eating a 1\/4 pounder. I prefer to support indie restaurants rather than the franchises. And about 9 years ago they had McWraps which tasted &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2008\/05\/28\/mcdonalds-restaurant-impressions\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-400","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-family","9":"category-finance","10":"category-food","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}