{"id":701,"date":"2011-01-04T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2011-01-04T08:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T13:03:24","slug":"a-veritable-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"A veritable feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Year started like this (and apologies to those who&#8217;ve seen this, but photos of dawn on 1\/1 are rather indistinguishable).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/sunrise20110101.jpg\" alt=\"sunrise\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It continued with a great deal of cooking and eating. We&#8217;ve gotten together with Lynn and Charlie very nearly every New Year&#8217;s Day that we&#8217;ve been in the same state. This was the first year that we hosted, and we did a very good job.<\/p>\n<p>There was roast beef with mushroom gravy, and <a href=\"https:\/\/allrecipes.com\/\/Recipe\/classic-yorkshire-pudding\/Detail.aspx\">Yorkshire pudding<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101cookbooks.com\/archives\/goldencrusted-brussels-sprouts-recipe.html\">Brussels sprouts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplebites.net\/butternut-squash-gratin-recipe-family-favorite-side-dish\/\">butternut squash<\/a> (with fresh rosemary added), and salad. <\/p>\n<p>And only a minor oven explosion. Really.<\/p>\n<p>Followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/spacedlaw.livejournal.com\/339620.html\">this chocolate thing<\/a> for dessert, served with ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn and I did a jigsaw puzzle, and the men talked about knives. For hours. All in all, a very satisfying day.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ve been eating leftovers &#8211; quite happily &#8211; for the past couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about writing an overview of 2010 in fiber arts, but it&#8217;s a long string of good intentions and unfinished projects. Just not that interesting, and too depressing to contemplate. A lot of good things happened, and some very bad ones. Overall, though, it was an overwhelming year.<\/p>\n<p>2011: the year of finishing things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Year started like this (and apologies to those who&#8217;ve seen this, but photos of dawn on 1\/1 are rather indistinguishable). It continued with a great deal of cooking and eating. We&#8217;ve gotten together with Lynn and Charlie very nearly every New Year&#8217;s Day that we&#8217;ve been in the same state. This was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,20,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-all-grownup","category-productivity","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}