{"id":1393,"date":"2009-08-10T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2009-09-02T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T05:22:29","slug":"sunday-lunch-in-the-cotswolds-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Lunch in the Cotswolds in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1762\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/img_3895a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1762\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1762\" title=\"img_3895a\" src=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/img_3895a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The ambiance remained...&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/img_3895a-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/img_3895a-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/img_3895a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;The ambiance remained...&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was our first &#8220;garden party,&#8221; and we served seven different offerings from the vegetable patch and two herbs, as we enjoyed a get-together with the &#8220;Other M and M&#8217;s.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It was wonderful to see these dear people and to enjoy an afternoon in the back garden.\u00c2\u00a0 On the menu: garden peas, turnips, radishes, lettuce, mesclun, Swiss chard, snap peas, mint, and rosemary.\u00c2\u00a0 Also: mashed potatoes, Ann&#8217;s Essential Meatloaf, &#8220;gnarly&#8221; carrots,\u00c2\u00a0 homemade biscuits, and a lovely fruit plate&#8211; the latter contributed by the OMM&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 We thought the day and the table setting vaguely suggested the terrace of some pub in the Cotswolds&#8211; but it would be some pub indeed that served such healthy foods, as was pointed out.\u00c2\u00a0 It was great fun &#8220;catching up&#8221; and exchanging opinions on the mad state of the world with our dear ones.\u00c2\u00a0 After they left, the ambience remained, and for a few minutes the table and the garden seemed to register their presence and hold the memory of a very happy first &#8220;garden party.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was our first &#8220;garden party,&#8221; and we served seven different offerings from the vegetable patch and two herbs, as we enjoyed a get-together with the &#8220;Other M and M&#8217;s.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It was wonderful to see these dear people and to enjoy an afternoon in the back garden.\u00c2\u00a0 On the menu: garden peas, turnips, radishes, lettuce, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inner-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}