{"id":1299,"date":"2014-03-12T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/yum\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:38:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:38:07","slug":"yum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/yum\/","title":{"rendered":"Yum!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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A couple of days ago an old friend came to town to attend a convention. She is the reason I began going to Houston each year for the big quilt show. Sadly, we hadn’t seen each other in several years, as she lives in England \u2014 it’s not all that convenient to get together. \ud83d\ude09 At any rate, we spent all day Monday together, and it was lovely! We did some catching up, some shopping, some talking, some eating, some chatting \u2014 you get the idea. LOL! The day came to an end all too soon, but it was so nice while it lasted. Oh, and they apparently don’t have The Cheesecake Factory in England, so that’s where we had lunch. Guess what was for dessert! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you make a choice??? A couple of days ago an old friend came to town to attend a convention. She is the reason I began going to Houston each year for the big quilt show. Sadly, we hadn’t seen each other in several years, as she lives in England \u2014 it’s not all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[235,232,211,195],"class_list":{"0":"post-1299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-entertainment","8":"tag-food","9":"tag-houston-show","10":"tag-misc","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0702.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yzuO-yum","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1270,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/back-from-houston\/","url_meta":{"origin":1299,"position":0},"title":"Back from Houston","author":"Sandy","date":"November 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Gosh! 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