{"id":183465,"date":"2013-02-21T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/21\/it-still-tastes-better-than-dr-pepper\/"},"modified":"2013-02-21T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:40:00","slug":"it-still-tastes-better-than-dr-pepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/21\/it-still-tastes-better-than-dr-pepper\/","title":{"rendered":"It Still Tastes Better Than Dr. Pepper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That being said, I understand why guests at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles were <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2013\/02\/hotel-guests-horrified-after-canadian-tourist-found-dead-in-water-tank.html\">squicked out when a body was found in its rooftop water tank<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Guests of a downtown hotel where missing Canadian tourist Elisa Lam was found dead in a rooftop water tank expressed horror at the discovery.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Lam&#8217;s body was discovered by a worker at the Cecil Hotel checking out complaints of weak water pressure, police said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really disgusted,&#8221; said Annette Suzuki, a San Francisco resident staying at the hotel. &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t you be if there was a dead body in the water tank you&#8217;re drinking from?&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As authorities were searching for clues at the scene of the discovery Monday evening, Pippa Beaumont, 26, of South Africa was rushing out of the hotel with her luggage in tow.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">She had planned to stay at the hotel but decided not to when she learned a body had been found in one of the hotel&#8217;s water tanks.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Los Angeles, the water drinks you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That being said, I understand why guests at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles were squicked out when a body was found in its rooftop water tank: Guests of a downtown hotel where missing Canadian tourist Elisa Lam was found dead in a rooftop water tank expressed horror at the discovery.Lam&#8217;s body was discovered by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}