{"id":189814,"date":"2010-02-10T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/10\/snowed-in\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:18:00","slug":"snowed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/10\/snowed-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowed In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 14 inches so far, on top of the 24+ inches last week, and school has been canceled for the whole week.<\/p>\n<p>What to do?<\/p>\n<p>I make soup.  I just put the blending stick to split pea soup.<\/p>\n<p>I got a soup\/pea packet at the grocery store, and followed the recipe, adding onions, celery, carrots, and (my Sharon&#8217;s<sup>*<\/sup> suggestion) a parsnip.<\/p>\n<p>I also added cubed pastrami,<sup>\u2020<\/sup> which I cooked in cheese cloth, so that the meat flavored the soup, but II could pull the meat out when I blended it, and then I add the meat back to the soup.<\/p>\n<p>Off to a late lunch.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Love of my life, light of the cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\"><span>she who must be obeyed<\/span><\/span>, my wife.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I know that ham and a ham bone is traditional for split pea soup, but if I were to use ham in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">my<\/span> house, on my <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">wife&#8217;s<\/span> dishes, my continued ability to breath would be in doubt, so no thank you, I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">like<\/span> breathing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 14 inches so far, on top of the 24+ inches last week, and school has been canceled for the whole week. What to do? I make soup. I just put the blending stick to split pea soup. I got a soup\/pea packet at the grocery store, and followed the recipe, adding onions, celery, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1136,1012,1185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-breaking-news","category-food","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}