{"id":826,"date":"2002-12-23T13:41:33","date_gmt":"2002-12-23T21:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/23\/the-center-of-anchorage\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T00:14:42","slug":"the-center-of-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/23\/the-center-of-anchorage\/","title":{"rendered":"The center of Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to know that even if it doesn&#8217;t have quite the status that it used to, in some ways, <acronym title=\"Village Inn, Northern Lights\">VINL<\/acronym> is still definitely the center of Anchorage. I spent years hanging out at this diner in midtown Anchorage, and met quite a few friends there over the years. So, when tooling around Anchorage on a slow Sunday night, what to do but stop by?<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take me long to run into someone I knew there. In fact, I was still walking up to the door when I spotted Aaron coming in the other door &mdash; doubly amusing, since he and I have both been living in Seattle for quite a while now, but we ran into each other at VINL last Christmas season, too. We grabbed table 1, were joined in a bit by a friend of Aarons (who&#8217;s name I, unfortunately, can&#8217;t remember right now, but she knew me, and I&#8217;d met her from time to time over the years), and the three of us talked and caught up for a couple hours.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, Erica showed up with her friend Eric, and when it got to be time to head off, I followed the two of them back to her apartment, and spent another few hours catching up with old friends. Was a lot of fun to see her and her son Deven again, as I&#8217;d not been able to catch up with her the last couple times I&#8217;d been through town.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I think I&#8217;m about ready to head off and brave the Anchorage malls in some last-minute Christmas shopping. What better time to go shopping than Dec. 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to know that even if it doesn&#8217;t have quite the status that it used to, in some ways, VINL is still definitely the center of Anchorage. I spent years hanging out at this diner in midtown Anchorage, and met quite a few friends there over the years. So, when tooling around Anchorage on a slow Sunday night, what to do but stop by?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}