{"id":1506,"date":"2010-05-10T19:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T00:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2010-05-10T19:25:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T00:25:57","slug":"mothers-day-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother decided to take his girlfriend Diane and me out to dinner yesterday, as to celebrate Mother’s Day. It was a dual tribute, both to Diane who has two daughters, and to our own mother who died last October. Yes, it was a table for four, with one empty seat. Sort of a ‘missing (wo)man formation’.<\/p>\n

But dinner was nice. I had eggplant parmigana with some veggies, plus that dubious yam mash on the left side (which would have been much better without butter and milk; just a bit of olive oil and brown sugar could have made it ‘sing’). My brother ordered a promising bottle of Stag’s Leap merlot, as seen on the right. However, this wine had a dry, gravely, tannic feel to it; not at all like the big, rich, fruit-driven Napa Valley libations that I’ve come to love.<\/p>\n

But we drank it (and my brother paid too much for it). The day still went well. There’s still something good about being at a table with people, food and drink, even if all three possess their imperfections. <\/p>\n

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My brother decided to take his girlfriend Diane and me out to dinner yesterday, as to celebrate Mother’s Day. It was a dual tribute, both to Diane who has two daughters, and to our own mother who died last October. Yes, it was a table for four, with one empty seat. Sort of a ‘missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}