{"id":432,"date":"2007-11-26T03:40:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T08:40:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-11-26T03:40:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T08:40:53","slug":"the-pumpkin-charmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"The Pumpkin Charmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beverly came around noon with nice flowers for my mom.  It was then that my weakness was exposed for all the world to see.  We went to Target and found a vase to put the flowers in.  Yaw and Justin rolled in before 4pm. <\/p>\n<p>And then &#8211; the feast (that mom, almost exclusively mom, had slaved over for days in my kitchen) was on!<\/p>\n<p>The spread was thus:  (all completely manufactured from scratch &#8211; except the drinks)<\/p>\n<p>Individual stuffed Cornish Hens<\/p>\n<p>Green bean casserole<\/p>\n<p>cream corn casserole<\/p>\n<p>fresh cranberry sauce<\/p>\n<p>stuffing<\/p>\n<p>gravy<\/p>\n<p>mashed potatoes<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin PIe<\/p>\n<p>Peach Derazno<\/p>\n<p>White Zinfandel<\/p>\n<p>Yellow Tail Sheraz<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlorenzlong.com\/thanksgivingtable.jpg\" width=750 height=218 border=0 alt=''><\/p>\n<p>From my point of view<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlorenzlong.com\/thanksgivingtable2.jpg\" width=600 height=372 border=0 alt=''><\/p>\n<p>From my counter&#8217;s point of view (no photoshopping required&#8230;and where did Justin go?)<\/p>\n<p>After the massive feast those with room in their bellies tried the pumpkin pie with cool whip.  Justin prepared his projector and we watched Star Wars The Phantom Menace on my living room wall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlorenzlong.com\/starwarslivingroom.jpg\" width=600 height=450 border=0 alt=''><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beverly came around noon with nice flowers for my mom. It was then that my weakness was exposed for all the world to see. We went to Target and found a vase to put the flowers in. Yaw and Justin rolled in before 4pm. And then &#8211; the feast (that mom, almost exclusively mom, had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}