{"id":16317,"date":"2013-07-05T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=16317"},"modified":"2013-07-05T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:45:59","slug":"pancakes-steaks-and-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/07\/pancakes-steaks-and-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Pancakes, Steaks, and Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/07\/pancakes-steaks-and-patriots\/07-04-13_pancakes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16319\" alt=\"Pancakes\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-04-13_pancakes-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-04-13_pancakes-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-04-13_pancakes.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Did you all have a lovely Fourth of July?\u00a0 Scott and I kept things really low key since I had to work on Wednesday and have to work today as well.<\/p>\n<p>We slept late, some of us later than others.\u00a0 And we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast with flavored coffee (blueberry!) and pancakes.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly my pancakes didn&#8217;t turn out and even though they look tasty, I ended up pitching them.\u00a0 Opting for another breakfast entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t get a lot of time outside at the moment, we spent a good part of the morning sitting outside soaking up some sun and enjoying the quiet.\u00a0 As much as we could before the neighbors got rowdy.<\/p>\n<p>That was alright though because the rest of the day we were holed up in the basement playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/BioShock-Infinite-Xbox-360\/dp\/B003O6EB70\/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373035116&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=bioshock+infinite\" target=\"_blank\">BioShock Infinite<\/a> (not an affiliate link).\u00a0 Which is a totally appropriate way to spend the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p>After a few hours of shooting up Patriots (those guys can be tricksy!), it was time to head back outside to grill dinner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/07\/pancakes-steaks-and-patriots\/07-04-13_grilled_steak\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16318\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16318\" alt=\"Grilled steaks, loaded baked potato, and asparagus\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-04-13_grilled_steak-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-04-13_grilled_steak-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-04-13_grilled_steak-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-04-13_grilled_steak.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Steaks and kielbasa on the grill! With some roasted asparagus and loaded baked potatoes on the side.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was delicious but mostly I enjoyed being able to spend the day with Scott. Our schedules don&#8217;t match up that much any more and it&#8217;s especially nice when I get to spend a whole day with him.<\/p>\n<p>Today is our anniversary!\u00a0 We&#8217;re celebrating 15 years of couplehood!\u00a0 I&#8217;m already looking forward to hanging outside on the patio when I get home from work.<\/p>\n<p>Did you have a lovely holiday? Any yummy eats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you all have a lovely Fourth of July?\u00a0 Scott and I kept things really low key since I had to work on Wednesday and have to work today as well. We slept late, some of us later than others.\u00a0 And we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast with flavored coffee (blueberry!) and pancakes. Sadly my pancakes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-4fb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}