{"id":21801,"date":"2010-05-20T21:02:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=6732"},"modified":"2016-09-15T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T10:42:57","slug":"gift-of-a-salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/gift-of-a-salesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift of a Salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a fishmonger staying in one of our rooms for a few nights. He travels around in a refrigerated truck hocking frozen fish to individuals (restaurants have their own suppliers). I inquired about his wares and when he realised that I was shopping, not just being polite, he was quick to offer me a good price on a 5lb box of haddock.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CIMG00041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6737\" title=\"CIMG0004\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CIMG00041-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMuch as I love haddock, I knew there would be no way I could get through that much fish in a reasonable amount of time, so I asked a friend to split the box with me. By the time she had examined the fish and agreed, the fishmonger had dropped his price again, to $80, or $16\/lb which is a good price for up here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just waitin&#8217; on dinner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here are some random pics that don&#8217;t warrant their own post:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6734\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CIMG00012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6734\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6734\" title=\"CIMG0001\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CIMG00012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">no need to close the rear blind this winter!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6735\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CIMG00021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6735\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6735\" title=\"CIMG0002\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CIMG00021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">c is for cat AND contentment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dinner&#8217;s ready! And YUM! Best haddock EVER!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a fishmonger staying in one of our rooms for a few nights. He travels around in a refrigerated truck hocking frozen fish to individuals (restaurants have their own suppliers). I inquired about his wares and when he realised that I was shopping, not just being polite, he was quick to offer me a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1126,6,635,5,3,8,1040],"tags":[1447,1469],"class_list":["post-21801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-dawson-city-yukon-canada-travel","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-work","category-yukon","tag-cats-in-an-rv","tag-klondike-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}