{"id":5398,"date":"2016-03-17T19:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:05:53","slug":"luck-of-the-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/luck-of-the-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"Luck of the Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended\u00a0a St. Patrick’s Day themed potluck this evening. It was funny to see how everyone managed to wear some green. I was surprised by how green used to be my absolute favourite colour and yet the only thing that I had to wear tonight that came close to that shade was my new teal dress<\/a>. I was rather pleased to have an excuse to wear it for the first time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

We were quite a large group, with lots of folks leaving in the next couple of days and weeks. There was tons of great food for both dinner and dessert. Someone passed around a bottle of Jameson Irish whiskey at one point and I ended up having two shots of it. One fellow commented that I didn’t choke on it and I told him that that’s because Jameson is pretty smooth. “Smooth?!” he exclaimed. We then got into a discussion about Irish whiskey and Scotch and how I acquired the taste while traveling around Scotland nearly 20 years ago. He was pretty impressed since he thinks whiskey tastes like lighter fluid. Depends on what you’re drinking. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The party was just the right length, two hours. Plenty of time to eat and socialise, but not so long as to mean I had to duck out when the fun started since I’m working tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I came home to find a cute little gecko curled up on my computer. I didn’t have time to grab a picture before he was scurrying off in a panic. Those little critters are like ghosts; I usually only see them fro the corner of my eye. So it’s always a treat when I get a proper sighting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended\u00a0a St. Patrick’s Day themed potluck this evening. It was funny to see how everyone managed to wear some green. I was surprised by how green used to be my absolute favourite colour and yet the only thing that I had to wear tonight that came close to that shade was my new teal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","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=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}