{"id":2269,"date":"2007-07-11T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2007-07-11T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T15:27:12","slug":"a-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/07\/11\/a-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/porch_chair.jpg' title='porch_chair.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/porch_chair.thumbnail.jpg' alt='porch_chair.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nI guess it depends on how bright your monitor is, but this photo, for me, has a bit of an Andrew Wyeth look to it. <\/p>\n<p>We went to dinner last night at Spain, a restaurant with a fine reputation. Our meals didn&#8217;t disappoint, from Diane and Matt&#8217;s melt in your mouth swordfish, to my tenderly seasoned sole, and Ginger&#8217;s veal stuffed with lobster. Dan and Mark shared Paella Valencia which came in a flat bottomed crock and  could have fed four.  <\/p>\n<p>We sat next to a party of about twenty-five celebrating the birthday of the eighty-four year old matriarch.  They were loud, boisterous, and flowed freely from table to table, as if they were in a separate room. Some of us felt intruded upon, but I thought how great. At the end, the all lined up against one wall for one of those impossibly dim and distant group shots.  I wished I&#8217;d come armed with my pro-sumer camera and given them a photo worthy of their night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it depends on how bright your monitor is, but this photo, for me, has a bit of an Andrew Wyeth look to it. We went to dinner last night at Spain, a restaurant with a fine reputation. Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/07\/11\/a-celebration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}