{"id":982,"date":"2012-07-09T06:39:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T10:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2012-07-09T06:39:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T10:39:41","slug":"by-way-of-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/by-way-of-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"By way of explanation&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between power outages and visitors, blogging has had to take a back seat recently.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we invited Rappahannock chef Sylvie Rowand in to prepare dinner in the style of her native Reunion and our guests included two Germans, a Brit and a Norwegian.\u00a0 Globalization strikes Hume.\u00a0 But so did another power outage&#8230;right in the middle of preparation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the battery on the generator decided to quit so I had to make another round trip to the pump house in the pouring rain with jumper cables to get a boost from the Gator.\u00a0 (Incidentally, that rain felt wonderful!)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a limit to what the generator can power and we need to protect our frozen meat, but Sylvia was not at all thrown off her game.\u00a0 She timed the meal perfectly using just two electric burners, no oven,\u00a0and it was delicious.\u00a0 More about the meal, and everything else, at the end of the week but within the hour we&#8217;re off to Boston for a brief getaway.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, grandson Church has just arrived and can deal with the elements.\u00a0 Meanwhile, here&#8217;s a video that, as they say, &#8220;has gone viral&#8221;&#8230;.five-million views&#8230; by three young farm boys from Kansas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=48H7zOQrX3U\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=48H7zOQrX3U<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between power outages and visitors, blogging has had to take a back seat recently. Last night we invited Rappahannock chef Sylvie Rowand in to prepare dinner in the style of her native Reunion and our guests included two Germans, a Brit and a Norwegian.\u00a0 Globalization strikes Hume.\u00a0 But so did another power outage&#8230;right in the middle of preparation. Of course, the battery on the generator decided to quit so I had to make another round trip to the pump house in the pouring rain with jumper cables to get a boost from the Gator.\u00a0 (Incidentally, that rain felt wonderful!) There&#8217;s a limit to what the generator can power and we need to protect our frozen meat, but Sylvia was not at all thrown off her game.\u00a0 She timed the meal perfectly using just two electric burners, no oven,\u00a0and it was delicious.\u00a0 More about the meal, and everything else, at the end of the week but within the hour we&#8217;re off to Boston for a brief getaway. Fortunately, grandson Church has just arrived and can deal with the elements.\u00a0 Meanwhile, here&#8217;s a video that, as they say, &#8220;has gone viral&#8221;&#8230;.five-million views&#8230; by three young farm boys from Kansas. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=48H7zOQrX3U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}