{"id":132,"date":"2008-11-10T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=132"},"modified":"2016-09-11T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T09:42:14","slug":"sunday-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/sunday-social\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Social"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Sunday afternoon, we have a &#8216;social&#8217; here at the park. Everyone brings in a light(ish) snack and we gab for a few hours. For someone on a tight budget, it&#8217;s a really good investment: spend about 5$ on a snack and come home stuffed to the gills! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice way to get to know everyone. Last week, I really did not enjoy myself until the last half hour or so because everyone was talking about retirement and their grand-kids, so there were no conversations to join. Today, I knew a lot more people and they came to talk to me about Quebec, what I do in the park, their jobs, their kids etc. Since I wasn&#8217;t &#8216;on duty&#8217; today, I had planned to pop in for an hour at the most, but ended up staying till the end.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I brought in a large plate full of brownies (store bought) and went home with most of them. So, today I came with a very small quantity of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nanaimo_bar\">Nanaimo bars<\/a>. Lo and behold, it was the favourite dessert of half the people there! I should have known that they&#8217;re a BC-favourite based on their name! The manager came with BC crab dip and another had a BC salmon dip. Mmm! This really is the promised land!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Sunday afternoon, we have a &#8216;social&#8217; here at the park. Everyone brings in a light(ish) snack and we gab for a few hours. For someone on a tight budget, it&#8217;s a really good investment: spend about 5$ on a snack and come home stuffed to the gills! \ud83d\ude00 It&#8217;s a nice way to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,635,1276,5,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-oliver-bc","category-rving","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}