{"id":1021,"date":"2023-07-18T20:48:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T20:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:14:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:14:24","slug":"picky-eaters-make-for-perfect-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/07\/picky-eaters-make-for-perfect-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Picky eaters make for perfect friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sylvia, Dov and I sorted through racks of clothing at Crossroads, an overpriced thrift store that quickly became our guilty pleasure. They insulted the pink, pin-striped dress I had pointed out to them, dying of laughter. I had only met Dov 15 minutes before, and I had known Sylvia for less than a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was something else we shared besides our humor that might be more important: a distaste for dining hall food. Admittedly, it isn\u2019t bad; we\u2019re just picky. We concluded that if we started reviewing restaurants for the broadcast club, we would <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">have <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to eat elsewhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our first target was 10Q Chicken. The scenery was less than ideal\u2014grey floors, dim lighting and white tiled walls \u201cdecorated\u201d with crooked frames. But, with an hour to spare before the 7:00 lecture and the thought of having <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">another<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> slice of greasy pizza from the dining hall, we conceded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we filmed each other eating the glorious non-dining hall food, I was choking on my laughter and being told to \u201ceat like a normal person,\u201d\u2014which might sound mean, but to me, it was a comforting sign of closeness. I couldn\u2019t believe that I had only met them a day before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, we have accompanied Sylvia when she \u201cneeds\u201d to be 30 minutes early to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">every <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lecture, stood by Dov when he inevitably embarrasses us and humored my incessant pleas to go to the beach at any promise of a free hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even if I\u2019m 1,286 miles away from them (but who\u2019s counting), they\u2019ll never be able to get rid of me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I met my best friends through broadcast club and a shared distaste for dining hall food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[174],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiences"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":174,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cap-grau","display_name":"Georgia Rau","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}