{"id":19,"date":"2008-11-14T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2018-06-19T22:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:14:57","slug":"birthday-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/birthday-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_4nvDhgOwEek\/SSGw8iGdm8I\/AAAAAAAAAGk\/KHN2PmgSefU\/s1600-h\/Birthday.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269687592992742338\" style=\"display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; cursor: hand; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_4nvDhgOwEek\/SSGw8iGdm8I\/AAAAAAAAAGk\/KHN2PmgSefU\/s400\/Birthday.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On my birthday, November 5, the San Francisco Chronicle had a full page photo of our new President with the headline: &#8220;OBAMA, Change Has Come to America&#8221;. I could not have received a happier birthday present than this! My lucky day continued as my BFF Joan took me to <a href=\"http:\/\/cavallopoint.com\/\">Cavallo Point<\/a> for lunch where we enjoyed a decadent tasting menu with a bottle of Rose&#8217; from a Napa Valley vintner. \u00a0Dinner, artistically prepared by my husband Freddy, was the grand finale of the day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/\">Food Network<\/a> star\u00a0Giada de Laurentiis provided the inspiration for my birthday gift, her new cookbook &#8220;Everyday Italian&#8221;, and our menu. I was sous chef and table setter as Freddy prepared a delicious grilled eggplant salad with pine nuts and goat cheese and sweet potato fries with basil salt and a garlic mayonnaise dip. This was served with with chicken-apple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aidells.com\/\">Aidell&#8217;s<\/a> sausage. Our accompanying wine was a Pinot Grigio from Italy, a delightful surprise. Creamy vanilla gelato, topped with chocolate chips and hazelnuts, was the crowning dessert &#8211; birthday candle and all! Wishes of hope for everyone!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my birthday, November 5, the San Francisco Chronicle had a full page photo of our new President with the headline: &#8220;OBAMA, Change Has Come to America&#8221;. I could not have received a happier birthday present than this! My lucky day continued as my BFF Joan took me to Cavallo Point for lunch where we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/birthday-celebrations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birthday Celebrations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[97,120,94],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-aidells","tag-cavallo-point","tag-food-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->