{"id":7,"date":"2008-07-06T22:31:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T02:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/archives\/7"},"modified":"2008-07-11T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T20:15:10","slug":"i-met-a-singer-at-la-z-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"I met a singer at La-z-Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I stopped in for lunch at a local Uno Chicago Grill before visiting the local La-z-Boy furniture store to look for a recliner.  Up until today I had no experience with either of these establishments.  I thought that my dining experience could only improve after yesterday&#8217;s visit to Ruby Tuesday.  Again I was seated immediately.  This restaurant has no salad bar.  I ordered their most basic hamburger platter cooked well done with fries on the side, a Caesar Salad with anchovies, and a glass of their &#8220;freshly&#8221; brewed unsweetened iced tea.  The salad was small, the anchovies were plentiful, the burger cooked perfectly (which unfortunately made it a little dry, my fault, which I countered with ketchup and Grey Poupon), and the fries were fantastic.  I did not realize they were seasoned fries but boy-o-boy was I impressed.  The iced tea took two sugar packets and was tasty.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Uno Chicago Grill!<\/p>\n<p>I was greeted by a salesman, a gentleman, named Michael Andrews as I walked through La-z-Boy.  He was courteous, knowledgeable, and most importantly patient.  He left me alone when I needed to be alone, and he checked back every so often to answer any questions I might have without being intrusive.  The bottom line, he was a professional who knew how to treat a customer.  He will never know how much I appreciated his demeanor.  The new, and first La-z-Boy recliner arrives this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out Mr. Andrews is a singer, jazz to be exact.  You can catch his performance at Dante Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. on July 26, 2008 at 8:00 PM.  If you&#8217;re interested, here a link to him on You Tube, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Raa2g3Ag16E\">An Evening with Michael Andrews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This man can sing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I stopped in for lunch at a local Uno Chicago Grill before visiting the local La-z-Boy furniture store to look for a recliner. Up until today I had no experience with either of these establishments. I thought that my dining experience could only improve after yesterday&#8217;s visit to Ruby Tuesday. Again I was seated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-and-refledctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}