{"id":815,"date":"2010-01-08T17:14:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2010\/01\/08\/me-cooking\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T17:14:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:14:04","slug":"me-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2010\/01\/08\/me-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Me, Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a pretty low threshold for what I consider &#8220;me, cooking.&#8221; Pretty much, if I add Tabasco, I&#8217;m cooking.<\/p>\n<p>So, for example, if I made toast, to which I wouldn&#8217;t normally add Tabasco, that wouldn&#8217;t count as cooking. (Or mebbe, if I added Tabasco to toast, that might count as cooking, but it&#8217;d count as bad cooking. I think. I need to try this.)<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, if I made a can of soup, like some Wolfgang Puck&#8217;s Thick and Hearty Lentil, and I didn&#8217;t add Tabasco (which would be crazy) that also would not be cooking.<\/p>\n<p>But, in contrast, if I made a can of soup, and I chose to add a few drops of Tabasco, in my heart it would feel like I had truly <i>cooked<\/i> that can of soup. Like the culinary choices (ok, choice) that I&#8217;d made had transformed that can of soup into a lentil-laden very personal and real expression of what I consider good eats.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, the lentil is hearty, yes. Thick too. I credit Wolfgang for this. But it&#8217;s also slightly spicy, and I think I&#8217;ve made my point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a pretty low threshold for what I consider &#8220;me, cooking.&#8221; Pretty much, if I add Tabasco, I&#8217;m cooking. So, for example, if I made toast, to which I wouldn&#8217;t normally add Tabasco, that wouldn&#8217;t count as cooking. (Or mebbe, if I added Tabasco to toast, that might count as cooking, but it&#8217;d count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-also-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}