{"id":215,"date":"2008-05-05T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2008-05-05T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T01:33:00","slug":"delicious-food-scintillating-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/delicious-food-scintillating-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicious food, scintillating conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SB5kFYLbb0I\/AAAAAAAAAYU\/9LVapf9NrWc\/s1600-h\/05_04_thankyou.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SB5kFYLbb0I\/AAAAAAAAAYU\/9LVapf9NrWc\/s320\/05_04_thankyou.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196701063584640834\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>One of the great things about being a calligrapher is that after you&#8217;ve been to someone&#8217;s house for an evening which included a really wonderful dinner and great conversation, you can write a thank-you note that at least begins to do justice to the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was mostly Romanian, with many, many courses. Appetizers included olives, cheese, trout in pastry cups. Dinner began with crudites and eggplant dip. Then borscht &#8212; the vegetarian Romanian version is much lighter than the Russian version. Then three vegetarian dishes featuring mushrooms in phyllo containers, spinach in a crepe type of roll, and a delicious squash dish. Dessert: chestnut creme cake and some kind of raspberry tart thing. Tea, coffee, dessert wine. I probably missed something.<\/p>\n<p>We waddled home late, worn out from eating and talking nonstop. It was lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about being a calligrapher is that after you&#8217;ve been to someone&#8217;s house for an evening which included a really wonderful dinner and great conversation, you can write a thank-you note that at least begins to do justice to the occasion. Dinner was mostly Romanian, with many, many courses. Appetizers included &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/delicious-food-scintillating-conversation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Delicious food, scintillating conversation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-3t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}