{"id":8916,"date":"2012-11-07T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T00:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2012-11-07T18:20:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T00:20:27","slug":"birthday-festivities-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=8916","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Festivities Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I hosted his parents for dinner on Saturday night to celebrate my birthday. We celebrated multiple times this year (<a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=8800\"  title=\"Chapada with the Dills\">Chapada<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=8856\"  title=\"Just the Two of Us\">Bite Me<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=8876\"  title=\"Carrabba's with Mom and Jenni\">Carrabba&#8217;s<\/a>). Not so much by choice, but just how things worked out because that&#8217;s when people were available.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8151901686\/\"  title=\"Iron Chef Brian is making dinner for us tonight. by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8063\/8151901686_579db15521.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Iron Chef Brian is making dinner for us tonight.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was fitting that the Food Network had their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Next_Iron_Chef#Season_4:_2011:_Super_Chefs\"  title=\"The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs\" target=\"_blank\">The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs<\/a> marathon that day because Brian was playing chef at home. He prepared apricot pork roast and German fries.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t explain the foods. Brian can do that for you guys in the comments. However, I will share some photos with you all\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8151913199\/\"  title=\"2012-11-03 17.30.43.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7251\/8151913199_c5f3013568.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"2012-11-03 17.30.43.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The German fries turned out really well. Brian did a great job.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8152002161\/\"  title=\"2012-11-03 18.05.46.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7258\/8152002161_096bfa3530.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"2012-11-03 18.05.46.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the pork roast\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8152006041\/\"  title=\"2012-11-03 18.06.57.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8340\/8152006041_ae6006af48.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"2012-11-03 18.06.57.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian&#8217;s mom brought over chocolate mousse cheesecake that she made for dessert. It was super yummy.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8152198858\/\"  title=\"2012-11-03 19.13.02.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7106\/8152198858_4d5f668194.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"2012-11-03 19.13.02.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For my birthday, they got me the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008KGR2OS\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B008KGR2OS&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=lifeafter-20\" >Words With Friends board game<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lifeafter-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B008KGR2OS\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, which really made my day. Brian and I played right away.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8151964706\/\"  title=\"2012-11-03 17.41.08.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8208\/8151964706_e5261e9ed3_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2012-11-03 17.41.08.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8151994842\/\"  title=\"2012-11-03 17.50.03.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7122\/8151994842_b115f66432.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"2012-11-03 17.50.03.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had uninstalled the game from my phone a while ago, but I had to reinstall it because it&#8217;s got a scoring tool and word checker for the board game. So I&#8217;m back to playing WWF again. Challenge me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I hosted his parents for dinner on Saturday night to celebrate my birthday. We celebrated multiple times this year (Chapada, Bite Me, Carrabba&#8217;s). Not so much by choice, but just how things worked out because that&#8217;s when people were available. It was fitting that the Food Network had their The Next Iron Chef: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,9],"tags":[115,118,27,119,2474,1336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions\/8922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}