{"id":1506,"date":"2008-11-21T19:24:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T03:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/the-essence-of-sand-art\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T19:24:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T03:24:18","slug":"the-essence-of-sand-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/the-essence-of-sand-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essence of Sand Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/not-sand-art.jpg' title='not-sand-art.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/not-sand-art.thumbnail.jpg' alt='not-sand-art.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>Actually, it&#8217;s the other way around &#8211; the sand art of essence. <\/p>\n<p>When we season meat, poultry, seafood and other food items, we like to use a concoction of spices that Emeril Lagasse calls &#8216;Essence,&#8217; or &#8216;Bayou Blast,&#8217; consisting of several different and complimentary herbs and spices. I added each item into a spice shaker and after I added the last one, I noticed the resemblance of my creation to sand art.<\/p>\n<p>I paused to take this photo before blending the ingredients together. Click for bigger..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, it&#8217;s the other way around &#8211; the sand art of essence. When we season meat, poultry, seafood and other food items, we like to use&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-dining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}