{"id":222,"date":"2009-01-26T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/?p=222"},"modified":"2009-01-26T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:28:33","slug":"spiffy-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/spiffy-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiffy McDonalds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-223\" title=\"McDonalds game machine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/photo-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/photo-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/photo-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m sitting in a McDonalds&#8217; at the moment working remotely via the free Wifi at this golden arches.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, free Wifi at McDonalds.\u00c2\u00a0 Canton, OH has the coolest McDonalds I&#8217;ve ever been to.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve got big LCD&#8217;s on the wall with the news, and another with Spongebob in the kids area.\u00c2\u00a0 And touch screen gaming areas.\u00c2\u00a0 But these machines aren&#8217;t just for kids.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve got games like zuma and spelling games and trivia that no child would have a chance of answering.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact I was playing the other night and one of the questions was &#8220;<a href=\"javascript:alert(\">How many gallons of beer are in a keg?<\/a>&#8220;\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, that might fly in Ohio but that just screams media frenzy back home.\u00c2\u00a0 The McDonalds has great coffee too.\u00c2\u00a0 Mochas, cappuchinos, lattes, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems pretty popular too.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Had some random guy come to up to me asking questions about my spiffy new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbook\/\">MacBook<\/a> from work.  He&#8217;s working on an older Mac on the Wifi too.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/photo-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-224\" title=\"standup machine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/photo-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/photo-4-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/photo-4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> It&#8217;s kinda nice working from here.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s mostly quiet (other than a few occaisional kids) and I can get fresh coffee\/hot chocolate or food instantly.\u00c2\u00a0 The only annoyance is having to pack up all my stuff with me to go to the bathroom since there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m leaving my laptop unattended on the table.\u00c2\u00a0 The temperature is nice and warm inside here too unlike some of the restaurants at home.\u00c2\u00a0 Considering it&#8217;s 14 degrees (F) outside they take heating pretty seriously up here.<\/p>\n<p>The only big annoyance is that the signal drops to almost nothing every time they turn on the fry machine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post about why I&#8217;m up here a bit later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in a McDonalds&#8217; at the moment working remotely via the free Wifi at this golden arches.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, free Wifi at McDonalds.\u00c2\u00a0 Canton, OH has the coolest McDonalds I&#8217;ve ever been to.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve got big LCD&#8217;s on the wall with the news, and another with Spongebob in the kids area.\u00c2\u00a0 And touch screen gaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phishie.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}