{"id":382,"date":"2008-08-27T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T09:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2008-08-27T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T09:25:46","slug":"life-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Life is GOOD&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5739.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_5739.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"294\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nsucculent Black Mission figs, fragrant toasted pecans and creamy Maytag blue cheese<\/p>\n<p>The kids are off at school; I have a bit of time to myself during the day on a regular basis now.  Hubby is even out of town on a business trip, so my schedule is completely my own.  I took advantage of this rare opportunity to create a snack\/brunch (it really <em>should<\/em> be a dessert) for myself that NO ONE else in my family will eat, but I LOVE, but rarely get to indulge.  Seriously, no one will touch this but me (Hubby hates figs, Girl hates almost all nuts and Boy hates &#8220;stinky cheese&#8221;).  I am absolutely loving life right now.  I&#8217;m reading the third of Ruth Reichl&#8217;s books (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Garlic-Sapphires-Secret-Critic-Disguise\/dp\/0143036610\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1219851085&#038;sr=8-1\"><u>Garlic and Sapphires<\/u><\/a>) while nibbling on this tasty treat and watching the hummingbirds play out of the corner of my eye.  The only thing that would make it perfect would be a diminutive glass of port, but it is 10:00 am and even I would find that a little too indulgent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>succulent Black Mission figs, fragrant toasted pecans and creamy Maytag blue cheese The kids are off at school; I have a bit of time to myself during the day on a regular basis now. Hubby is even out of town on a business trip, so my schedule is completely my own. I took advantage of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life is GOOD&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-favorites","category-snacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}