{"id":14566,"date":"2014-05-04T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T23:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=14566"},"modified":"2014-05-04T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T23:11:37","slug":"were-all-from-mexico-on-cinco-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2014\/05\/were-all-from-mexico-on-cinco-de-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re all from Mexico on Cinco de Mayo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of a Mexican (state of Puebla) victory over the French&#8230; a while ago.<\/p>\n<p>In the Western U.S. at least, it is celebrated &#8211; I think partly because there is a large population from Mexico as well as &#8230;HEY! &#8211; its a party and it involves margaritas and Mexican food and beer.  YAY!<\/p>\n<p>I am all for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6635.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6635.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, I am ready.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6636.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6636.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mint.  Newly available &#8220;live&#8221; just like the basil.  It doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with Cinco de Mayo but I found it gathering the other stuff and it is so PRETTY on the window sill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6637.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6637.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O Corona!  I did not buy tequila for margaritas as I LOVE tequila and I love it a little too well to have it around during the work week.  <\/p>\n<p>I like Corona. And I found limes for only 68 cents!!! &#8211; they have been over a $1.00 lately.  Corona and limes.  <\/p>\n<p>I like Corona and lime but I can behave with it.<\/p>\n<p>It might change, but my Cinco de Mayo week menu includes fish tacos with mango-pineapple salsa, fish enchiladas verde and a LOT of guacamole.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6656.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6656.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the rhubarb is going to make Cinco de Mayo, but it is doing well!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6639.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6639.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lily of the Valley!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6655.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May14\/CincoPrep6655.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lilac buds.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Day before Cinco de Mayo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of a Mexican (state of Puebla) victory over the French&#8230; a while ago. In the Western U.S. at least, it is celebrated &#8211; I think partly because there is a large population from Mexico as well as &#8230;HEY! &#8211; its a party and it involves margaritas and Mexican food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-yard-and-garden"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14569,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566\/revisions\/14569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}