{"id":1873,"date":"2015-07-20T21:15:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T04:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2015-07-21T02:27:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:27:05","slug":"going-home-red-cups-and-ribs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/2015\/07\/going-home-red-cups-and-ribs\/","title":{"rendered":"Going home:  Red cups and ribs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-20150702_163936.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"20150702_163936.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-20150702_163936.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-20150702_150643.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"20150702_150643.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-20150702_150643.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently went home to Virginia to visit the family.\u00a0 My parents are getting up there in years and other relatives are dropping like flies.\u00a0 I met up with friends from high school, toured the Capitol with Hill, and we even had time to hit a couple of the local wineries.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pearmundcellars.com\">Pearmund<\/a> and The Winery at La Grange. The tasting room at <a href=\"http:\/\/wineryatlagrange.com\">La Grange<\/a> is circa 1790.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing I looked forward to is hanging out with my sister and brother-in-law.\u00a0 Naja and Biggie (his nickname is fitting), epitomize values we were raised with.\u00a0 Family, friends, love and humor.\u00a0 All are present in their home all the time.\u00a0 Also present in their home all the time Is food.\u00a0 Biggie loves to cook and I love eating Biggies cooking.\u00a0 Ribs, chicken, mac and cheese, collard green, potato salad, all the standards we love.\u00a0 Everyone has their own recipes for sauces and cooking techniques but no one will share.\u00a0 Biggies is no different.\u00a0 He made a flank steak that was marinated in one of his concoction, absolutely delicious.\u00a0 He still hasn&#8217;t told me what was in it.\u00a0 Even if he did, I wouldn&#8217;t tell.<\/p>\n<p>This visit, the cocktail was Zaya\u00a0 Rum and coke.\u00a0 I like it with diet coke.\u00a0 If you have not tried it, you will appreciate the vanilla and oak notes and smooth finish.\u00a0 To me, the diet coke does not over power or cover the characteristics of the rum.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Artist talk about the love, sweat and pride they put into their creations.\u00a0 Biggie is no different, except for the sweat.\u00a0 You can taste the love for his family and his pride in every bite.\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting homesick thinking about it.\u00a0 Until my next visit, love your family and be good to them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Brax<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went home to Virginia to visit the family.\u00a0 My parents are getting up there in years and other relatives are dropping like flies.\u00a0 I met up with friends from high school, toured the Capitol with Hill, and we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/2015\/07\/going-home-red-cups-and-ribs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantastetic4.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}