{"id":1346,"date":"2009-01-04T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T23:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2009-01-04T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T23:45:25","slug":"party-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"Party Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last one of the Christmas\/New Year&#8217;s season, I think.\u00a0 Good thing, too, because as much fun as we&#8217;ve had, as much as we love our friends, we&#8217;re partied out and are ready to crawl back into our shells, like those DSL tortoises from the TV commercials (so much more interesting than Chad&#8217;s nerdy cell phone rivals).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1347\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/01-03-09_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1347\" title=\"click for larger\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/01-03-09_1.jpg\" alt=\"Donna and friends, figuring out the seating\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna and friends, figuring out the seating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There were ten of us, so we had to set up a card table with folding chairs.\u00a0 In the background with Donna are Dee, Mary Anne, and Lois.  Schatzi&#8217;s in there too, I notice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1349\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/01-03-09_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1349\" title=\"click for larger\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/01-03-09_4.jpg\" alt=\"The food line\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The food line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The main dish was a salad with grilled salmon and avacado dressing.\u00a0 The recipe&#8217;s on <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/cookblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crouton&#8217;s Kitchen<\/a>, my cooking blog, if you&#8217;re interested.\u00a0 We also had steamed veggies, roasted chicken, and a corn casserole.\u00a0 Oh, and plenty of wine, as you can see.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1350\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/01-03-09_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1350\" title=\"click for larger\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/01-03-09_6.jpg\" alt=\"Overflow seating (aka the kids' table)\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Overflow seating (aka the kids&#39; table)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Above, John and Lorri, Darrell and Lois.\u00a0 The party was for Lorri&#8217;s and Darrell&#8217;s birthdays, but Darrell, being ancient, got the balloon, while Lorri had to settle for a ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me now, I&#8217;m going to pull in my head and pretend I&#8217;m a DSL tortoise for a month or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last one of the Christmas\/New Year&#8217;s season, I think.\u00a0 Good thing, too, because as much fun as we&#8217;ve had, as much as we love our friends, we&#8217;re partied out and are ready to crawl back into our shells, like those DSL tortoises from the TV commercials (so much more interesting than Chad&#8217;s nerdy cell phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}