{"id":5027,"date":"2013-03-31T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2021-04-17T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:36:55","slug":"feels-like-a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/feels-like-a-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Now it feels like a new year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-31-grilling-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of chicken grilled on a Weber Smokey Joe Silver.\" class=\"wp-image-5029 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/480;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-31-grilling-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of chicken grilled on a Weber Smokey Joe Silver.\" class=\"wp-image-5029\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicole and I picked up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004RALL?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=michaecom0d-20&amp;linkId=e92a3dac4624f625860105ebc4f3c473&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Weber Smokey Joe Silver<\/a> and spent part of our Easter Sunday afternoon preparing grilled turkey brats, chicken, and steak. Aside from providing a tasty weekend meal for us\u2014our efforts produced an assortment of grilled foods to enjoy for lunches and dinners over the next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve been without a grill since last summer. Our standard sized Weber was given to a friend of a friend when we thought we had sold our home and were moving. A&nbsp;prospective home buyer insisted that we move out quickly so that he and his girl friend could move in within two weeks. We&nbsp;accommodated by selling and giving away items rapidly, moved belongings into storage, and &#8220;temporarily&#8221; moved in with Nicole&#8217;s parents. It was quite an adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the guy never came to the home sale closing and stopped responding to the realtor. The sale fell through and after several months we moved back home. There were a lot of other things that happened over the past year too. Ultimately, the&nbsp;rhythm&nbsp;and balance of everything has felt a little off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new, little grill is a simple thing to be happy for. Though,&nbsp;enjoying the savory smells as delicious foods cooked over charcoal paired with the first warmer weather of the season made it really feel like a new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoying the savory smells as delicious foods cooked over charcoal paired with the first warmer weather of the season made it really feel like a new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_type":0,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[649],"tags":[114,176],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-31-grilling-640x480.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelvanputten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}