{"id":210,"date":"2016-04-06T01:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T01:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catylou.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:12:01","slug":"boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had finished my 3 day gig<br \/>\nOn my way out of Boston<br \/>\nI stopped for a bite to eat<\/p>\n<p>The waitress brought the menu over<br \/>\nAnd I ordered BBQ and tea-sweet<br \/>\nShe brought out my BBQ<\/p>\n<p>I looked at it and said<br \/>\nYou brought me the wrong order<br \/>\nSnippily she said, \u201cThis is BBQ<\/p>\n<p>I slid the plate across the table<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t look like BBQ to me<br \/>\nI told her, \u201cfine-just bring me my tea\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She came out with a pot and a cup and saucer<br \/>\nStarted pourin\u2019 something green in that cup<br \/>\nI said, \u201cwhat is that?\u201d she said, \u201chouse blend green tea with mint\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I slid that next to the plate<br \/>\nTold her, \u201cLady, go find a big glass fill with ice and tea\u2014sweet\u201d<br \/>\nHer face got real puffed up and red<\/p>\n<p>She place a hand on the table<br \/>\nLeaned in real close and said,<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s ten degrees outside you Georgia Cracker<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t serve ice tea in the winter<br \/>\nAnd you think you\u2019re gonna stiff me for that<br \/>\nThink again<\/p>\n<p>I slid out of the both<br \/>\nPulled out my gig pay<br \/>\nPeeled back 100\u2019s, 50\u2019s, 20\u2019s<br \/>\nFound a ten, picked up the tab<br \/>\nGave them both to her<br \/>\nAnd said, \u201cKeep the change, Little Darlin\u2019, Keep the Change<\/p>\n<p>Put on my cowboy hat<br \/>\nWalked to my truck<br \/>\nPointed it south<\/p>\n<p>Laughed and sang, \u201cKeep the change, keep the change, Little Darlin\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nAll the way to Nashville<br \/>\nThe tab was nine dollars and ninety cents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had finished my 3 day gig On my way out of Boston I stopped for a bite to eat The waitress brought the menu over And I ordered BBQ and tea-sweet She brought out my BBQ I looked at it and said You brought me the wrong order Snippily she said, \u201cThis is BBQ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/catylou.com\/?p=210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boston<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}