{"id":1170,"date":"2011-09-02T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2011-09-02T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:00:10","slug":"block-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/1170","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Recipe: Block Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tNew to our neighborhood, we were invited to help our neighbors close down the street, lug grills and lawn chairs up the culdesac, and enjoy a good old-fashioned get-together.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Everyone brought their own drinks and meat for grilling along with a salad or dessert to share. We filled up on food \u2026 and gossip. In her book, <em>Dakota<\/em>, Kathleen Norris said, \u201c\u2026 gossip done well can be a holy thing \u2026 It can strengthen community bonds. Gossip provides comic relief for people under stress \u2026 Gossip can help us give a name to ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1171\" title=\"growing_jane-block_party-01-1060950\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/growing_jane-block_party-01-1060950.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The kiddos rode bikes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1172\" title=\"growing_jane-block_party-02-1060949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/growing_jane-block_party-02-1060949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who knew?! Stella\u2019s favorite new friend she made during her summer t-ball season is our neighbor! His parents moved in this past spring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1173\" title=\"growing_jane-block_party-03-1060946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/growing_jane-block_party-03-1060946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stella even talked him into letting her try out his cool Radio Flyer scooter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1174\" title=\"growing_jane-block_party-04-1060947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/growing_jane-block_party-04-1060947.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful evening and Stella exclaimed (after noticing my mostly empty salad bowl), \u201cThey ate it!\u201d as if it were a completely foreign concept to bring a SALAD to a potluck and have everyone eat it.<\/p>\n<p>In the mood to share more secrets, here\u2019s one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1175\" title=\"growing_jane-block_party-05-0938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/growing_jane-block_party-05-0938.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Southwestern Potato Salad<\/h2>\n<p class=\"stick-together\">MAKES: 6 servings<\/p>\n<p class=\"border-std-bottom\" style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\">Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ingredients\">\n<li>6 cups cooked potatoes, cut into 3\/4\u2033 cubes<\/li>\n<li>1 cup fresh corn, cooked and chilled<\/li>\n<li>1 roasted red pepper, chopped<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup red onion, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves garlic, minced<\/li>\n<li>2 T cilantro, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>2 T olive oil<\/li>\n<li>2 T red wine vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 t salt<\/li>\n<li>pepper, freshly cracked<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New to our neighborhood, we were invited to help our neighbors close down the street, lug grills and lawn chairs up the culdesac, and enjoy a good old-fashioned get-together. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/1170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[283,395,635,671,751,846],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing_jane","tag-event","tag-growing-jane-good-eats","tag-neighbors","tag-party","tag-recipes","tag-stellajane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}