{"id":1331,"date":"2007-09-21T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T10:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2007-09-20T12:26:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T17:26:36","slug":"as-it-is-written-so-shall-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"As It Is Written, So Shall It Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Top Chef<\/em> is falling right into place with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1281\">my predictions<\/a>: the supernaturally-arrogant (and, given his arrogance, the appropriately-named) Hung, the improbably cute Casey, the chick-eye-candy (I presume) Brian, and the wild card, the lovable, talented, gay Dale.\u00a0 Remember; my formula calls for three finalists; an arrogant but blazingly talented jagoff, a\u00a0cute and talented woman, and a\u00a0personable, talented, and often gay guy.\u00a0 Bingo &#8211; in advancing Brian <em>and\u00a0<\/em>Dale, we got both.\u00a0 Bases covered. The formula is upheld. On to the finals!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As to predicting the winner &#8211; I&#8217;ll rely entirely on clues (inadvertent or otherwise) supplied by the producers earlier in the run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coming next week.<\/p>\n<p>(And, for the record, Howie&#8217;s mushroom risotto recipe rocks my world, and I&#8217;m trying the unjustly-maligned asparagus and prosciutto phyllo cigars this weekend&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Probably.<\/p>\n<p>(Foot, by the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/koolaidreport.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/power-of-strong-odors-purple-faced.html\">gets the gestalt of the show pretty dead-on<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Chef is falling right into place with my predictions: the supernaturally-arrogant (and, given his arrogance, the appropriately-named) Hung, the improbably cute Casey, the chick-eye-candy (I presume) Brian, and the wild card, the lovable, talented, gay Dale.\u00a0 Remember; my formula calls for three finalists; an arrogant but blazingly talented jagoff, a\u00a0cute and talented woman, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}