{"id":186,"date":"2006-09-14T00:34:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T05:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/14\/ive-lost-13-pounds\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T00:34:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T05:34:49","slug":"ive-lost-13-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;ve lost 13 pounds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that as I have lost more weight, I have started to post more recipes. Does that mean I am getting food-obsessed?<\/p>\n<p>Ha ha. That was a joke, because anybody who&#8217;s known me for any time knows that I have always been food-obsessed (it comes from my mother). Take Chad&#8217;s not-so-surprise birthday BBQ last weekend. On the suggestion of a culinary friend, I wrapped about half of the six pounds of shrimp in half pieces of bacon and skewered them with cherry tomatoes, mushrooms and red bell pepper. Everything got well-grilled. Dee-dee-licious.<\/p>\n<p>Fried rice by Al, homemade birthday cheesecake by Ann, and four pints of Ben and Jerry&#8217;s, beer and wine.<\/p>\n<p>For an appetizer, I served my mom&#8217;s secret recipe: Take one small wheel of brie, slather good dijon mustard over the top, sprinkle brown suger liberally and nuke for two minutes. I served it with Wheat Thins. That, and a fresh pineapple that Caryn sliced to serve, in an amazingly competent manner. Oh, and lots of edename from Trader Joe&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that as I have lost more weight, I have started to post more recipes. Does that mean I am getting food-obsessed? Ha ha. That was a joke, because anybody who&#8217;s known me for any time knows that I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}