{"id":258,"date":"2008-04-17T15:28:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T21:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:04:08","slug":"iowa-workday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/04\/iowa-workday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa workday #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wind stopped and the clouds came back this morning.  I am not complaining as the returning clouds made for a most glorious sunrise that Karl and I watched as we finished our morning walk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/IBeefSunriseB.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunrise\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunrise\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/IBeefSunrise.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunrise\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunrise\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In between fighting my fledgling knowledge of C# (C-Sharp &#8211; programming language) I tried out a new electric kettle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/IBeefPot400294.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Electric Kettle\" height=\"294\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 294px\" title=\"Sunrise\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went hunting for a small crock pot yesterday and came home with this.  It reportedly slow cooks, steams, deep frys and ??? &#8211; I guess anything else you need a medium large pot to do.  So far it has dealt with one of those pasta-chicken-veg meals in a bag and today it was home to the makings for Italian Beef Sandwiches.  About 3:30 after no lunch and living in close quarters with the smell of roast beef, italian sausage, green peppers and au jus on the simmer, I succumbed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr08\/IBeefSandwich400300.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sandwich\" height=\"300\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 300px\" title=\"Sandwich\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll make it through the rest of the work day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but it did break my heart to make this without Bill &#8211; one step forward, two backward or something like that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wind stopped and the clouds came back this morning. I am not complaining as the returning clouds made for a most glorious sunrise that Karl and I watched as we finished our morning walk. In between fighting my fledgling knowledge of C# (C-Sharp &#8211; programming language) I tried out a new electric kettle&#8230; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-misc","category-photos","category-rv-trips"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22133,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/22133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}