{"id":2438,"date":"2007-11-11T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2007-11-11T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T17:13:00","slug":"2438","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DINNER WITH THE NEW MAPMAKER<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.federalreview.com\/uploaded_images\/pentagons_new_map-764315.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night, I enjoyed a delicious meal at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogodechao.com\/locations\/chicagoIL.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Fogo de Chao<\/span> <\/a>in the company of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dr. Barnett<\/span><\/a>, his very bright and spirited daughter, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Emily<\/span>, fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoboyz.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Chicago Boyz<\/span><\/a> blogger<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Lexington Green<\/span> and his gracious wife&#8230;umm&#8230;&#8221;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mrs. Green<\/span>&#8220;. As Brazilian cuisine is basically a salad followed by about seven pounds of meat, we may all still be in the process of digestion even as I write this post (Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanmeade.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sean &#8221; Jack Bauer&#8221; Meade<\/span><\/a> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.determineddesigns.com\/\">Mrs. Zenpundit<\/a> <\/span>for facilitating the communication logistics of this get-together).<\/p>\n<p>This was my first occasion meeting Tom and he was pretty much as I had expected him to be, except taller. An interesting aspect of the discussion was that if you have seen Dr. Barnett&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/media\/thebrief.htm\">televised brief<\/a>, that represents a modulated pacing, of his sometimes rapid-fire conversational delivery, highly energized by ideas and their prospective implementation.  The discussion was wide-ranging and intriguing, though some elements of it have been or will be posted on Tom&#8217;s blog as they related to his recent Central Asian tour with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Admiral Fallon<\/span>, chief of CENTCOM, but good books, politics, Japanese anime, various public intellectuals and writing all came up as topics of conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The food was excellent, as was the company. I&#8217;d like to thank Dr. Barnett for taking the time out of a very busy travel schedule with Emily for a social engagement with the Greens and myself, as well as for dinner. The generous gesture is much appreciated.  It was also a pleasure to see Lex and his wife again. Hopefully, we can all sit down again sometime in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DINNER WITH THE NEW MAPMAKER Last night, I enjoyed a delicious meal at Fogo de Chao in the company of Dr. Barnett, his very bright and spirited daughter, Emily, fellow Chicago Boyz blogger Lexington Green and his gracious wife&#8230;umm&#8230;&#8221;Mrs. Green&#8220;. As Brazilian cuisine is basically a salad followed by about seven pounds of meat, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,2,68,128,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-blogroll","category-fun","category-personal","category-pnm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}