{"id":714,"date":"2007-11-12T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/vernas-diner\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:12:02","slug":"vernas-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/vernas-diner\/","title":{"rendered":"Verna&#8217;s Diner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/chix-fried.jpg\" title=\"chix-fried.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image713\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/chix-fried.jpg\" alt=\"chix-fried.jpg\" width=\"240\" class=\"left\" \/><\/a>Welcome to Verna&#8217;s Diner. Over the weekend, we indulged ourselves by preparing this delicious blue-plate special: chicken-fried steaks with mashed taters and country-style green beans &#8211; served with a frosty mug of winter lager.<\/p>\n<p>Although the meal seems a bit waistline-unfriendly, we did clean up the fat act somewhat. Verna fried up the steaks in light oil in a pan (rather than deep-fried) and low or no-fat dairy products were used to prepare the mashed taters and gravy. The green beans were accented with onions, garlic and bacon bits. By the way, we used fresh-picked green beans that are still growing in Verna&#8217;s garden.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Verna&#8217;s Diner. Over the weekend, we indulged ourselves by preparing this delicious blue-plate special: chicken-fried steaks with mashed taters and country-style green beans &#8211;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-food-and-dining","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}