{"id":24,"date":"2010-04-10T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2010-04-10T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T20:59:00","slug":"ode-to-pretzels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/ode-to-pretzels\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Pretzels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love soft pretzels. Those commercially availible SuperPretzels burrowed their way into my heart when I was working at a hospital years ago and the only vegan option was either that, or some lettuce (and I&#8217;m not even kidding.)<br \/>\nWhen I went to Denver for the first time in 2006 I realized in one quick sweeping generalization that Americans Love Pretzels. Okay, maybe that&#8217;s not entirely accurate, but there was a pretzel cart, store, etc everywhere I went. &nbsp;Some sort of pretzel love I&#8217;d never seen before, especially not anywhere in Canada.<br \/>\nAll subsequent trips to the United States meant more soft pretzels, all over New York City, Arizona, random places in Seattle, Portland. They were there. And they made me happy.<\/p>\n<p>Saskatoon is not the place to go if you like commercially&nbsp;available&nbsp;fresh soft pretzels. Maybe I haven&#8217;t looked hard enough, but I haven&#8217;t seen them anywhere. So following the logical course of action&#8230; I baked some&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4503930631\/\" title=\"P1080454 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P1080454\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2762\/4503930631_d6bd4225f5.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;m excitedly plotting my dish for the Raw Food Potluck on Wednesday, it&#8217;s not going to be anything fancy. My first priority is that it&#8217;s tasty and simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love soft pretzels. Those commercially availible SuperPretzels burrowed their way into my heart when I was working at a hospital years ago and the only vegan option was either that, or some lettuce (and I&#8217;m not even kidding.) When I went to Denver for the first time in 2006&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,4],"tags":[1376],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-pretzel","category-vegan-food","tag-vegan-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}