{"id":5373,"date":"2018-08-26T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5373"},"modified":"2018-08-26T14:51:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:51:53","slug":"cooking-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5373","title":{"rendered":"Cooking class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5375\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5375\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/C01FB989-51B4-450A-AA0C-9AD95F1D6A21-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/C01FB989-51B4-450A-AA0C-9AD95F1D6A21-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/C01FB989-51B4-450A-AA0C-9AD95F1D6A21-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/C01FB989-51B4-450A-AA0C-9AD95F1D6A21.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John cooking crab cakes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John has said that since he\u2019s finished with War College, he\u2019s going to learn to cook, and I am thrilled about that! He went to a knife class at a local cooking school while I was in Suriname, and used his newfound skills to spatchcock a chicken (cutting up a whole one), braise, and bake it for me Friday night. It was delicious!<\/p>\n<p>Last night we went to \u201cdate night\u201d at the culinary school and we had a blast. There were eight couples. We made crab cakes with lime-cilantro cream, Mexican corn salad, pork belly tacos, vinegared onions, and chocolate mousse &#8211; it was so much fun!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5374\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5374\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5374\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2F20FA49-65B6-405A-B514-EF316A236E70-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2F20FA49-65B6-405A-B514-EF316A236E70-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2F20FA49-65B6-405A-B514-EF316A236E70-577x1024.jpeg 577w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2F20FA49-65B6-405A-B514-EF316A236E70.jpeg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At cooking school<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week I was in a visa class, and we were at FSI the first two days of the week. It was fun to run into old friends out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John has said that since he\u2019s finished with War College, he\u2019s going to learn to cook, and I am thrilled about that! He went to a knife class at a local cooking school while I was in Suriname, and used his newfound skills to spatchcock a chicken (cutting up a whole one), braise, and bake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}