{"id":3457,"date":"2010-06-25T07:04:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2010-06-25T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T13:04:19","slug":"party-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/party-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy this week getting ready for an adults-only party we&#8217;re hosting tomorrow night.\u00c2\u00a0 Menu planning, purchasing supplies for super-top-secret party games, testing recipes for Watermelon Margaritas (flop) and Margarita Popsicles (hopeful), and doing important things like making a crafty new wreath for my front door and thinking about how much more awesome the party would be if I could redecorate my mantle.\u00c2\u00a0 This is EXACTLY why I don&#8217;t host big parties very often.\u00c2\u00a0 I get a little crazy, and feel the need to be Martha Stewart <em>sans <\/em>a staff of hundreds to do my bidding.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, energetic almost-3-year-olds aren&#8217;t really interested in party planning, as it turns out.\u00c2\u00a0 They are much more interested in splashing in rain puddles, hunting for slugs, and pretending to be Buzz Lightyear.\u00c2\u00a0 So we&#8217;ve been doing a lot of that, too.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s crunch time now for my party prep, so I&#8217;ll be back with a new post on Sunday!<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/party-preparation\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy this week getting ready for an adults-only party we&#8217;re hosting tomorrow night.\u00c2\u00a0 Menu planning, purchasing supplies for super-top-secret party games, testing recipes for Watermelon Margaritas (flop) and Margarita Popsicles (hopeful), and doing important things like making a crafty new wreath for my front door and thinking about how much more awesome the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}