{"id":161,"date":"2004-02-11T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/02\/11\/robot-art-and-senagalese-food\/index.php"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"robot-art-and-senagalese-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/02\/11\/robot-art-and-senagalese-food\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"robot art and senagalese food&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>caryn came home friday evening and i went with her, sage, and catherine to this gallery exhibit that featured robotic interactive art.  it was really cool.  a bunch of small animated robots that turned on by the push of a button, or sound activated, or motion sensitive.  you could try out each robot and they were all cool and artsy looking. the whole room was buzzing w\/ robot sounds, whirring, and beeps.  afterwards, sage suggested we go to a Senegalese restaurant.  i&#8217;ve wanted to go to this place for a long long time, and so was pretty excited to finally try it out.  the food was hella good!!  i had been reading in my travel books that a lot of the food in africa is quite bland, but this was super flavorful and delicious.  after that we dropped off sage and went to go hang out at the Fireside Lounge.  it&#8217;s really nice having a cool bar less than a block from your house.  that&#8217;s why i love Sf so much.  you can do so much just within walking distance of your house.  there are neighborhoods w\/ local bars, local markets, coffee shops, etc.  unlike the south bay where all you can do from your house is either stare at other similar houses or go visit the local strip mall.<\/p>\n<p>-v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>caryn came home friday evening and i went with her, sage, and catherine to this gallery exhibit that featured robotic interactive art. it was really cool. a bunch of small animated robots that turned on by the push of a button, or sound activated, or motion sensitive. you could try out each robot and they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/02\/11\/robot-art-and-senagalese-food\/index.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;robot art and senagalese food&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}