{"id":22128,"date":"2013-02-14T13:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18398"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:50:10","slug":"winter-bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/winter-bounty\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would take thousands of words to explain just why Texas is such a good place for me to be this winter. All I can say is that this is easy living in a good climate and my stress levels are lower than they have been in a very, very long time.<\/p>\n

I’m getting plenty of sun and exercise and the abundance of delicious fresh non-wintery tasting fruits and veggies means that I am eating very well. With all of that comes mostly good sleep, the kind I thought I would never again be able to have. I am very well and refusing to even think about the impending return to Canada. This is a now I want to savour fully.<\/p>\n

Lunch today was yummy. For someone who until a couple of days ago had no use for avocados<\/a>, I sure had nooooo trouble figuring out what to do with the one I bought yesterday:<\/p>\n

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I just mooshed it up with coarse sea salt, some minced garlic, and the juice of half of a small lime. OMG, avocado, where have you been all my life?<\/p>\n

After I had devoured half of the contents of the bowl, I decided to grill a small tortilla so I’d have something with which to mop the bowl:<\/p>\n

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With this, I had a whole orange pepper (sliced, no dip) and a whole mango for dessert. Winter bounty at its best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would take thousands of words to explain just why Texas is such a good place for me to be this winter. All I can say is that this is easy living in a good climate and my stress levels are lower than they have been in a very, very long time. I’m getting plenty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1242,635,11,5,1039,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-magnolia-beach","category-north-america","category-personal","category-rving","category-texas","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128","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=22128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}