{"id":191,"date":"2006-12-24T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2006-12-24T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T11:58:36","slug":"sunday-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/more-treatment\/sunday-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday&#8230; Christmas Eve!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick pre-Christmas update and some results of food research, thanks to Mark (fellow blogmaster) and Sue who hosted a pre-Christmas Dinner Party last night!  I am delighted to report that Smoked Salmon and Prawns, washed down with Champagne, tasted absolutely marvellous!  Sadly more aromatic hot foods and wine were less good for the taste buds, although vegetables are fine, so I will be enjoying my sprouts tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>On the pudding front, Caroline&#8217;s treacle sponge was heavenly.  Cheese was mixed, again aromatic soft cheeses were less successful, especially Camembert, but Stilton was surprisingly good, as was Brie!  However, good though the food was, it was the company that made it, so thank you Mark &#038; Sue, a great evening!<\/p>\n<p>I seem to be taking a leaf out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabledrants.blogspot.com\/\">John&#8217;s blog<\/a> with this emphasis on food, but I do normally enjoy my food, so the assault on my taste and smell is particularly galling.  However I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t stop me enjoying the day.<\/p>\n<p>I will post tomorrow, but I know it is a busy family day, so may I take this opportunity of thanking you all for your support in the last year, and can I wish you all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Very Happy and Peaceful Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Onwards and upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick pre-Christmas update and some results of food research, thanks to Mark (fellow blogmaster) and Sue who hosted a pre-Christmas Dinner Party last night! I am delighted to report that Smoked Salmon and Prawns, washed down with Champagne, tasted absolutely marvellous! Sadly more aromatic hot foods and wine were less good for the taste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}