{"id":78,"date":"2011-08-15T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/08\/thinking-of-julia\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:01:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:01:54","slug":"thinking-of-julia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/08\/thinking-of-julia.html","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Julia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">On our last visit to our nation\u2019s capital &amp; particularly our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">nation\u2019s attic<\/a>, very much a high spot for auntie, Jan &amp; me was seeing the reconstruction of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julia_Child\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Julia Child\u2019s<\/a> kitchen.\n<p>It felt like we were at a shrine.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe we were\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Not only did she introduce a generation of Americans to real food, she opened doors that people have been walking through even since\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Julia would have turned ninety-nine today\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-5196635571179719074?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our last visit to our nation\u2019s capital &amp; particularly our nation\u2019s attic, very much a high spot for auntie, Jan &amp; me was seeing the reconstruction of Julia Child\u2019s kitchen. 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