{"id":1893,"date":"2008-12-25T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2008-12-25T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T02:28:00","slug":"christmas-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1893","title":{"rendered":"Christmas dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/3136499699\/\" title=\"Xmaspasta1 by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3082\/3136499699_ef34bcbc63.jpg\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Xmaspasta1\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nThe traditional Christmas ravioli.  My husband makes the pasta dough, ricotta cheese, and sauce from scratch.  This year the tomatoes were from our garden, and we had a side of spicy sausage from an Italian butcher about 20 miles up the road.<\/p>\n<p>In theory we all help assemble it, but really it&#8217;s mainly my husband who is the maestro here.  It&#8217;s so good.  So good.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas went well.  Em got overtired just before bedtime and started quietly crying because &#8220;I haven&#8217;t done karaoke all year.&#8221;  Really it was because she had been up since 6am, going full tilt.  I should have put her to bed early.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the rough finish, she still said, &#8220;I think this was my favorite Christmas ever.&#8221;  Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>And so, exhausted, I&#8217;m also off to bed.  I hope your Christmas was merry and bright.<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional Christmas ravioli. My husband makes the pasta dough, ricotta cheese, and sauce from scratch. This year the tomatoes were from our garden, and we had a side of spicy sausage from an Italian butcher about 20 miles up the road. In theory we all help assemble it, but really it&#8217;s mainly my husband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}