{"id":396,"date":"2019-11-04T17:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/a-rather-large-thursday-night\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T17:55:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:55:20","slug":"a-rather-large-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/a-rather-large-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rather Large Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought that a nice post-birthday supper for 6 at Daddy Bao&#39;s in Tooting would end up as a bit of a large one?? 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