{"id":573884923,"date":"2013-05-29T22:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T03:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884923"},"modified":"2013-06-03T02:41:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T07:41:10","slug":"the-snerffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/the-snerffs\/","title":{"rendered":"The snerffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least it is the kind of illness — sinuses, really — that let’s you know precisely when the medication has worn off. That’s considerate. And either this is a super allergy\/sinus issue or the over-the-counter medicines have a lot less potency than they used to. It is possible that both are true. <\/p>\n

We finally visited Dunkin Donuts today. Took them forever to open, and town was filled with news of rumored false starts. It became a thing to video yourself going to the drive thru and knocking on the window. Finally the sign said “Opening May 28th.” <\/p>\n

So we went on the 28th at about 10:30 p.m. Only they weren’t open for 24 hours on their first day. They’d already exhausted themselves. <\/p>\n

This morning they were open again. I counted at least 14 people working there, surpassing the number of people that were sitting at the little round tables at the time. They have hi-def menu screens and two rows of doughnuts. The kid that got our order got it wrong. <\/p>\n

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The doughnuts were not especially good. (But it is their first week.) They were no Daylight. They were no D Square. They were certainly no Krispy Kreme. Somehow they will probably be more successful than all of them. <\/p>\n

Still not sure how Daylight closed. It went dark about a year ago, just down the road from the new Dunkin spot. The parking was bad, and maybe the location was a factor, but the doughnuts were good and the burgers would surprise you. <\/p>\n

The owner bought some property for a song in Michigan<\/a> in 2010. Then it looks as if he wanted to sell it at a 500 percent profit<\/a> just two days later, in a story which included some odd quotes. And then in March of 2011 that Michigan building burned<\/a>. It seems he’d decided on selling the old chestnut wood inside the building, but alas. Two teens were charged in the blaze. And then there was a threat of<\/a> and, finally, last month, foreclosure<\/a>. The locals, in the comments of all of those stories, found it all a bit suspicious. <\/p>\n

But, hey, doughnuts!<\/p>\n

Gave a tour<\/strong> of downtown and campus today. I invoked Sundilla and discussed the Harpers. We pointed out buildings with famous names and famous tales and sweated on a beautiful May afternoon. We discussed the old stuff and guessed at the new stuff.<\/p>\n

At dinner I felt the moment precisely when the old drugs stopped working and then, a bit later, precisely when the new antihistamine kicked in. Breathing is a wonderful thing. Also it is underrated. <\/p>\n

A few more days of this and I’ll be fine. I’ll try the doughnuts then, when I can properly taste things again. <\/p>\n

Two new things on Tumblr<\/a>, much more on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least it is the kind of illness — sinuses, really — that let’s you know precisely when the medication has worn off. That’s considerate. And either this is a super allergy\/sinus issue or the over-the-counter medicines have a lot less potency than they used to. It is possible that both are true. We finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,25,10,12,31,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-links","category-photo","category-tumblr","category-twitter","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884927,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884923\/revisions\/573884927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}