{"id":3707,"date":"2012-10-10T23:46:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T23:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2015-10-11T00:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T00:11:35","slug":"mealsmilestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/?p=3707","title":{"rendered":"Meals\/Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PUBLISHED IN THE ANTIGONISH REVIEW, FALL 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the stranger who let us stay in his condo?<br \/>\nDo you remember when Rocky got tired of looking at trees?<br \/>\nDo you remember riding through a gale-force thunderstorm?<br \/>\nDo you remember the servers who couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d quit our jobs?<br \/>\nDo you remember the Bible quotes all the way up the Cassiar?<br \/>\nDo you remember the day we got stuck directing lost riders?<br \/>\nDo you remember camping near that creepy Trans-Am?<br \/>\nDo you remember shopping at the fake Frenchy&#8217;s?<br \/>\nDo you remember Critical Mass, when it ended on Chebucto Road?<br \/>\nDo you remember going 70 clicks down the hill in Fundy Park?<br \/>\nDo you remember when I had a job for seven days?<\/p>\n<p>It was at the diner in Ketchikan \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where the light breakfast came with three eggs.<br \/>\nIt was at the bakery on the St. John River \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where they made their own molasses bread.<br \/>\nIt was at the caf\u00c3\u00a9 near Deschambault \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where we learned to order breakfast pas de cretons.<br \/>\nIt was at Mile 55 on the Klondike \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with the cinnamon buns the size of your head.<br \/>\nIt was at the restaurant in Dease Lake \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where $9 slices of cake were shipped up from Victoria.<br \/>\nIt was at the buffet in Kingston \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where the portions were measly and the servers miserable.<br \/>\nIt was at the farmhouse outside Saint-Andre \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with their taps full of microbrew.<br \/>\nIt was at the yard sale by Borden-Carleton \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with the quarter cookies sold alongside quilts.<br \/>\nIt was at pizza corner in Halifax \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where we ate donair and falafal.<br \/>\nIt was at the shanty in Alma \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where we had lobster straight from the ocean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUBLISHED IN THE ANTIGONISH REVIEW, FALL 2012 Do you remember the stranger who let us stay in his condo? Do you remember when Rocky got tired of looking at trees? Do you remember riding through a gale-force thunderstorm? Do you remember the servers who couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d quit our jobs? Do you remember the Bible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-writing","post-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}