{"id":2303,"date":"2011-01-18T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2011-10-02T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T20:16:46","slug":"today_play_date_dinner_fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/today_play_date_dinner_fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: play date dinner fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBrought home one of Ingrid&rsquo;s friends for the afternoon. Lots of splashing in puddles on the way home. They painted a bit, and then played with sticky tape, putting bits of sticky tape all over themselves.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs always, when we&rsquo;ve got other kids here, I make an effort to come up with a meal that they will eat. And as always, I fail. I pick something that Ingrid will bolt down, something that doesn&rsquo;t have any challenging unusual ingredients, isn&rsquo;t weird in any other way&#8230; Every time I think I&rsquo;ve finally come up with something foolproof, but every time the guest ends up eating only the boiled potatoes on the side, or equivalent. Today I made &ldquo;veggies on a stick&rdquo;, grilled veggie skewers, with bell peppers, carrot, apple and zucchini. Ingrid squealed with delight. I mean, what child doesn&rsquo;t like apples and peppers? Apparently there are such children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brought home one of Ingrid&rsquo;s friends for the afternoon. Lots of splashing in puddles on the way home. They painted a bit, and then played with sticky tape, putting bits of sticky tape all over themselves. As always, when we&rsquo;ve got other kids here, I make an effort to come up with a meal that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-life_with_kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}