{"id":334,"date":"2010-03-17T09:51:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=334"},"modified":"2010-03-17T09:51:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:51:46","slug":"stormy-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2010\/03\/17\/stormy-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormy Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-530\" title=\"2010.03.17\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010.03.17.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Recent events revolving around my father&#8217;s ailment have resulted in several visits back home this month. The most recent trip was a late night drive along dark interstate highways and a rest stop at an eerily quiet McDonald&#8217;s with a cabal of suspicious-looking truckers. The shadow of the rain clouds followed us home on Sunday, leaving us exhausted and drenched. After the drive, we warmed up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamorra.com\">La Morra<\/a>, where notables from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonusa.com\/visit\/restaurantweek\">Restaurant Week<\/a> menu included chicken livers with a light and creamy fried polenta, an oyster mushroom risotto with an al dente texture, a meaty but delicate monkfish entree, and a refreshing maple panna cotta. A second attempt to drown my troubles with food was unsuccessful. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaconhillhotel.com\/bistro\/\">Beacon Hill Bistro<\/a>, my vegetarian selections included an under-salted, over-sweetened butternut squash veloute and what I deemed &#8220;the $33 onion&#8221; &#8211; a red onion stuffed with carrot cumin puree over kimchee and wild rice, a dish that left me thinking WTF? My DC (&#8220;dining companion&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chowhound.com\">Chowhound<\/a> lingo) was better satisfied with a cockles and mussels appetizer, roasted skate wing entree, and delicious chocolate cake with chai spice and chai-poached pear. Sadly, the current deluge has even eaten through our condo roof, as we watched the rain water seep through the cracked ceiling paint. I await the storm clouds to dissipate, and look forward to brighter days ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent events revolving around my father&#8217;s ailment have resulted in several visits back home this month. The most recent trip was a late night drive along dark interstate highways and a rest stop at an eerily quiet McDonald&#8217;s with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2010\/03\/17\/stormy-weather\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}