{"id":35,"date":"2026-09-03T07:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/2026\/09\/second-tries-ranked-without-mercy\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:59:48","slug":"second-tries-ranked-without-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/2026\/09\/second-tries-ranked-without-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Second tries, ranked without mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It started as a half-plan on a Tuesday and somehow became the highlight of the week. I wrote down everything while it was fresh, mostly so future-me could relive it \u2014 but if this helps you pick your own version of it, even better.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few practical notes before you try it: bring cash, give yourself more time than feels necessary, and photograph the menu board \u2014 future you will want to know what that was.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you tried it yourself? Tell me in the comments \u2014 I read everything.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started as a half-plan on a Tuesday and somehow became the highlight of the week. I wrote down everything while it was fresh, mostly so future-me could relive it \u2014 but if this helps you pick your own version of it, even better. A few practical notes before you try it: bring cash, give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal","tag-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.web.vk.al\/journal-ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}