{"id":96,"date":"2007-10-01T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2007\/10\/01\/96\/"},"modified":"2015-10-14T19:49:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T00:49:30","slug":"96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Blood&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/charlies.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I used to eat dinner and hang out in this place a lot, back in my younger day.  It\u2019s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliebloods.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Blood\u2019s Tavern<\/a>.  The bar is up front, with the family restaurant in the back.  It\u2019s one of those family-owned neighborhood places in New Jersey.  It may not look like much from the outside, and the food is pretty basic; a bit on the heavy side.  But the overall experience is not bad, not bad at all.  The dining area has a western theme, of sorts.  And yet the family and the food (and the neighborhood) are almost pure Italian.  So you could call it a \u201cspaghetti western\u201d.   I hope to get back there again someday, hopefully on a rainy Friday night.  I can almost smell that delicious hot-grease scent that greets you in the parking lot (the kitchen ventilator is quite near the entrance \u2013 this wasn\u2019t a phony marketing technique, as done today; it was probably the only place to put the ventilator).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to eat dinner and hang out in this place a lot, back in my younger day. It\u2019s called Charlie Blood\u2019s Tavern. The bar is up front, with the family restaurant in the back. It\u2019s one of those family-owned neighborhood places in New Jersey. It may not look like much from the outside, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5709,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}