{"id":325,"date":"2005-07-31T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2005-07-31T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-31T22:01:00","slug":"reward-the-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/31\/reward-the-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Reward the Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Captain D&#8217;s now has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainds.com\/menu\/LighterFare.aspx\">lighter fare<\/a>.  For those who don&#8217;t know me, I am the &#8220;Captain D&#8217;s Guy&#8221;.  The restaurant was founded the same year I was born, and I imprinted upon it at an early age when my mom would drop me off there for lunch while she shopped at the grocery store next door.  Even now, I still eat there twice a week &#8211; sometimes even twice a day.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward ten years. My uncle Joe died of heart failure when I was in college &#8211; and my dad had quite the history of heart disease himself &#8211; so even though I&#8217;m adopted I figured it was time to start looking ahead to beat the family curse.  I decided to focus on baby steps: going for a walk once a week, or ordering one less piece of fish for lunch, or switching from fries to rice.  This was difficult, but over time the &#8220;baby steps&#8221; approach worked: I went from walking to running to the Peachtree, and from the three piece fried fish dinner to the two-piece broiled grill with veggies.  It took another ten years, but I eventually DID manage to lose the college fat and bring the cholesterol (which never was bad, mind you) under control.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to now. I&#8217;m developing a &#8220;your money is your voice&#8221; philosophy: I choose to shop at Whole Foods, and will soon choose to switch to a hybrid car, NOT because I&#8217;m a granola health food environmental nut but instead because I think there is value to healthy food choices and fuel efficient cars and I&#8217;m willing to put some price premium on doing things a better way. Hopefully if enough people think like me, businesses will notice, and will apply some of that crackerjack capitalist ingenuity to making me happy in a healthy, environmentally conscious way.<\/p>\n<p>SO I was pleased to see that Captain D&#8217;s has indeed adopted lighter fare.  In addition to the broiled lunch special I&#8217;ve been eating all this time, they&#8217;ve added low calorie, low carb and premium grilled selections which target any kind of health diet you so choose.  And you know what?  Surprise, surprise &#8211; they&#8217;re some of the tastiest meals on the menu.  And this is speaking from someone who loves fried fish: it&#8217;s great to have something that tastes good be good for you, for a change.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/captain-ds-health.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go check it out.<br \/>\n<br \/>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Captain D&#8217;s now has lighter fare. For those who don&#8217;t know me, I am the &#8220;Captain D&#8217;s Guy&#8221;. The restaurant was founded the same year I was born, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}