{"id":2201,"date":"2011-12-26T08:42:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2011-12-27T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:59:39","slug":"christmas-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas found me sick with a chest cold. \u00a0As a result, Sam and I spent most of the three day weekend skipping other obligations and watching movies. \u00a0 In short:<\/p>\n<p>Conan: bad (unless you like blood gushing from smashed heads like stewed tomatoes )<\/p>\n<p>Midnight in Paris: bad (if only for the hard-to-take-seriously Owen Wilson)<\/p>\n<p>Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Good, but disturbing (to be expected from a Fincher film). \u00a0Also &#8211; not having read the\u00a0millennium\u00a0trilogy, I&#8217;m confused as to what happened to the REAL Anita (did I miss something?)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mission Impossible: impossibly silly; mildly entertaining; you&#8217;ve seen every frame of the Burj stunts in the trailers; Cruise is aging too much for the role and you expect him to peel off his face in the middle of every close-up to reveal a less hang-dog version of himself..but, despite Simon Pegg&#8217;s verbal want for it, this never happens.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates of the\u00a0Caribbean\u00a03: impossibly silly on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas day Sam spent hours in the kitchen making a lamb stew. \u00a0 I think she was trying to compete with Shamshiri&#8217;s version, but it was really no contest. \u00a0Shamshiri&#8217;s lamb dish, while good, is just lamb and oil. \u00a0Sam&#8217;s was packed with\u00a0tomatoes, spices, etc.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-9-lFRli8uKc\/TvnvpoyGSyI\/AAAAAAAAF3A\/xqdX9YLHSL8\/s600\/DSC06438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The final presentation with cherry rice:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-dE8FnJXTmCk\/Tvnvm0qza-I\/AAAAAAAAF28\/lgPPKpXQ5CA\/s600\/DSC06444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Sunday after\u00a0Christmas\u00a0Sam made this concoction of berries, ice cream and graham crackers for breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-riFR_gJG98E\/Tvnvptf_fdI\/AAAAAAAAF3M\/CEPZviY07HU\/s600\/DSC06449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas found me sick with a chest cold. \u00a0As a result, Sam and I spent most of the three day weekend skipping other obligations and watching movies. \u00a0 In short: Conan: bad (unless you like blood gushing from smashed heads like stewed tomatoes ) Midnight in Paris: bad (if only for the hard-to-take-seriously Owen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}