{"id":3964,"date":"2012-03-15T21:14:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T02:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2012-03-15T21:16:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T02:16:57","slug":"flowers-ingredients-and-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=3964","title":{"rendered":"flowers, ingredients, and 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a sock that needs to be done in just under 26 hours (ah, Sock Madness!), so this will be quick. Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. The flowers have really popped this week. The tulips are finally up, the magnolia trees in front of the Phillips Gallery are in full bloom, and I walked back to the Brookland Metro station on Wednesday under a canopy of cherry blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/6838028326\/\" title=\"Pecan Pie for Pi Day by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7062\/6838028326_27e2790803_m.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Pecan Pie for Pi Day\" align=right hspace=3 vspace=3><\/a>I did not have a jar of cherries after all. Our lemon juice was nearly out. I&#8217;d turned all our apples into sauce. But I did have pecans and corn syrup, which meant we got to eat this for Pi(e) Day &#8212;><\/p>\n<p>3. Sunday night we headed up to the American City Diner for a meal. We ate soup and sandwiches and fries, drank milkshakes (cherry for me; a black and white for Rudi), and played 1950s tunes on the jukebox with the quarters we had at hand.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What was beautiful in your world this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a sock that needs to be done in just under 26 hours (ah, Sock Madness!), so this will be quick. Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. The flowers have really popped this week. 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