{"id":36304,"date":"2014-12-23T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T06:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=36304"},"modified":"2014-12-23T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T06:36:05","slug":"diners-at-edmonton-restaurant-get-bills-paid-for-by-man-who-wanted-it-kept-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/23\/diners-at-edmonton-restaurant-get-bills-paid-for-by-man-who-wanted-it-kept-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Diners at Edmonton restaurant get bills paid for by man who wanted it kept quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_47282155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36305\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_47282155.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_47282155\" width=\"1000\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_47282155.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_47282155-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_47282155-900x635.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON &#8212; It was an anonymous gift that left diners at an Edmonton restaurant flabbergasted.<\/p>\n<p>Moxie&#8217;s lounge in south Edmonton was bustling at lunchtime on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>When people from about eight or nine tables went to settle their tabs, they were told an anonymous stranger already paid.<\/p>\n<p>Moxie&#8217;s manager Matthew Russo says the man whispered to him that he&#8217;d like to pay everyone&#8217;s bills in the lounge.<\/p>\n<p>Russo says at first he was taken aback, but he added up all the bills and the man paid and left quietly.<\/p>\n<p>He says the bill for the eight tables was substantial and he&#8217;s never seen it before in all his years of working in the restaurant industry.<\/p>\n<p>Russo says the gesture put patrons and staff alike in a good mood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s blown everyone away&#8230; it was incredibly generous and kind and much appreciated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8212; It was an anonymous gift that left diners at an Edmonton restaurant flabbergasted. Moxie&#8217;s lounge in south Edmonton &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":36305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}