{"id":1004,"date":"2013-06-03T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2013-06-03T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T20:09:22","slug":"1004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/2013\/06\/1004\/","title":{"rendered":"Picnic At The Windy Oaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-IMG_20130601_130951_912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1002\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_20130601_130951_912.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-IMG_20130601_130951_912-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-IMG_20130601_130951_912-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-IMG_20130601_130951_912.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It was a magnificent weekend in the Monterey Bay area, high 70\u2019s to low 80\u2019s, no fog, no clouds. We do not get a lot of those. Troya suggested we take advantage and have a picnic lunch so after a quick stop at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deluxefoodsofaptos.com\/\">Deluxe Foods<\/a> to stock up on some Irish cheddar and a little slice of triple cream Brie, boar meat sausage, rosemary garlic sourdough, some almonds and fresh strawberry\u2019s we headed up to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windyoaksestate.com\/\"> Windy Oaks <\/a>winery. Having been there before, we were familiar with their long list of amazing Pinot Noir\u2019s, a little pricy but worth it on special occasions like this (see our prior post on Windy Oaks). We had not explored the property last time we were here but were told they had a great little picnic spot. We choose a bottle of Diane\u2019s Block and headed out on the trail. After a moderate 5 minute hike to the top of a Knoll they have several tables set up between grape fields and under several oak tree\u2019s giving the perfect amount of shade. The view down into the valley is spectacular. Great food, great wine, great location, the only thing missing was Brax and Hill (suckers had to work).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a magnificent weekend in the Monterey Bay area, high 70\u2019s to low 80\u2019s, no fog, no clouds. We do not get a lot of those. Troya suggested we take advantage and have a picnic lunch so after a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/2013\/06\/1004\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,16,112,25],"tags":[137,139,138,126],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-kept-secrets","category-blogs","category-docs-blogs","category-food-and-wine","category-santa-cruz","tag-deluxe-foods","tag-picnic-monterey-bay","tag-picnic-santa-cruz","tag-windy-oaks-estate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}