{"id":327,"date":"2020-06-15T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T20:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=327"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T20:49:21","slug":"mid-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Margot_Skipping.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Margot_Skipping.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Margot_Skipping-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Margot_Skipping-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Margot_Skipping-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Margot_Skipping-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Margot_Skipping-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Margot_Skipping-705x705.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Mid-year. Thankfully it&#8217;s looking more summer-like<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">June is always rainy in Vancouver. Well, not <em>always<\/em> but often enough so I can say it always rains in June. It isn&#8217;t currently raining, but it will, soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather for the rest of the week is looking pretty good, thankfully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s about this time of year (and again in Mid-December) when things kinda fall off the rails, food-wise. We were going to go to Italy this summer, but that is off the table, obviously. So we&#8217;ll go to the lake, instead. We leave early July and in the next two weeks it&#8217;s going to be a major challenge to get through the days, as everyone is looking for a few days off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how it is that everyone can just go and go and go and then barely deal, but that&#8217;s how it works in our household. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, it is an excellent opportunity to eat up all the frozen things we have, as well as revisit some family favourites. Meals for the next two weeks aren&#8217;t about &#8216;interesting&#8217;, they&#8217;re about &#8216;easy&#8217; and &#8216;surviving&#8217;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come mid-July we&#8217;ll be (hopefully) energized again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man, I need a vacation, somehow more this year than most. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June is always rainy in Vancouver. Well, not always but often enough so I can say it always rains in June. It isn&#8217;t currently raining, but it will, soon. The weather for the rest of the week is looking pretty good, thankfully. It&#8217;s about this time of year (and again in Mid-December) when things kinda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}