{"id":12642,"date":"2008-10-19T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12642"},"modified":"2011-08-02T02:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:14:24","slug":"burnt-soup-the-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/burnt-soup-the-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt Soup & The Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a> I had an absolute lovely weekend. Lee bought me<\/em> season ballet tickets for his<\/em> birthday. (I know. I have superior marital decision-making skills.) Anyway, we had the most lovely time. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The only negative thing was that I ate too much cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e at dinner and made myself sick, but if there has to be a downside to a date – too much cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e is a great one to have. (Side note: Cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e has replaced my Key Lime Pie fetish for the time being. I want to learn how to make it. Anyone have a good recipe? Please let me know.)<\/em><\/span> <\/div>\n
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I haven’t been to a ballet for a long time. I think since college actually. The ballet we saw was Mozart’s Requiem<\/em> and featured all men dancers. It was striking. At first, I was worried that I wouldn’t be mature enough to handle watching men in tights dance around, but apparently I am no longer thirteen. It truly was fantastic and now I understand why so many people just love the ballet. If you are in the DFW area, buy some season tickets. They are surprisingly affordable. The next ballet is The Nutcracker<\/em> – definitely a must see. I can’t wait. <\/div>\n
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On Saturday, I hosted a little Harvest Soup Party for some dear friends. Unfortunately, I burnt the soup a few minutes prior to everyone’s arrival! But no one was unkind enough to say a word about it. Despite th\"\"<\/a>e food being below par, the conversation was delightful and the company enchanting. Friends really are chicken soup for the soul. (I am meaning good soup…not burnt potato soup.) <\/div>\n
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\u201cSoup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.\u201d<\/em>Louis P. De Gouy, The Soup Book (1949)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an absolute lovely weekend. Lee bought me season ballet tickets for his birthday. (I know. I have superior marital decision-making skills.) Anyway, we had the most lovely time. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The only negative thing was that I ate too much cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e at dinner and made myself sick, but if there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption-catharsis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}