{"id":1535,"date":"2010-04-20T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/a-birthday\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:27:53","slug":"a-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/a-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"A birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I really am trying to work on my Winding Ways blocks, but there isn&#8217;t actually much to show that&#8217;s new. Besides, I keep getting interrupted for other things that don&#8217;t necessarily have anything to do with quilting! <g> Today, for example, is our younger daughter&#8217;s birthday. She and her two children, along with our older daughter with her husband and three children will be here for dinner tonight. I&#8217;ve just finished making dessert, which is <i>not<\/i> a cake, as we tend to prefer pies and cheesecakes to cakes. Since there will be ten of us, including four growing boys, I made two lemon meringue pies. The idea of lemon meringue pie sounded really good with our current quite-warm weather, and who doesn&#8217;t love lemon?<\/g><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2702.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2702-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Maybe soon I&#8217;ll have some quilting to show instead of food! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really am trying to work on my Winding Ways blocks, but there isn&#8217;t actually much to show that&#8217;s new. Besides, I keep getting interrupted for other things that don&#8217;t necessarily have anything to do with quilting! Today, for example, is our younger daughter&#8217;s birthday. She and her two children, along with our older daughter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[192],"tags":[47],"class_list":{"0":"post-1535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kitchen","8":"tag-food","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2702.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-oL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1295,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/09\/french-macarons\/","url_meta":{"origin":1535,"position":0},"title":"French macarons","author":"Sandy","date":"April 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"No \u2014 not macaroons, those coconut cookies we all know. 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