{"id":12743,"date":"2009-03-25T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12743"},"modified":"2009-03-25T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T13:31:00","slug":"chili-cook-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/chili-cook-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Chili Cook-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/ScoyyJFXWUI\/AAAAAAAACOM\/Pc7QyUiX5IU\/s1600-h\/cookoff-chili+cook+off+copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317118147077560642\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OxFi9LaSt_o\/ScoyyJFXWUI\/AAAAAAAACOM\/Pc7QyUiX5IU\/s400\/cookoff-chili+cook+off+copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <---- Not really. \n\n<div align=\"justify\">I actually didn&#8217;t even make a Chili for the cook-off on Saturday. Texans don&#8217;t appreciate a chili with beans. They like it beanless, smoky, and hot. My chili recipe is really only one of those three. So after years of trying to change their minds I made the award certificates and voting cards for the event instead! Lee unexpectedly became the MC for the night this year as well. Overall, it was a nice time. The ward we attend for Church is a little bit older, so the parties begin early, end early, and have a lot of sitting. Eventually the young families just let their kids run around like crazy and the older kids take the younger kids toys. You soon see a twelve year old on a toddler rocker and the parents seriously don&#8217;t notice. It&#8217;s <em><strong>hilarious.<\/strong><\/em> Similar to watching the Animal Channel. Survival of the fittest. Unfortunate for my children, I watch them like a hawk. I let E and V play as long as it&#8217;s deemed safe and then I quietly take them into another room until it&#8217;s clean-up time! I worry about them being taken down by the herd. They love running in the empty gymnasium with the other toddlers who have parents on clean-up duty. Next year I may try to convince my Texans to enjoy a bean Chili! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743","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=12743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}