{"id":178,"date":"2005-04-10T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2005-04-10T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2005-04-10T06:37:08","slug":"tea-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2005\/04\/tea-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/cup.jpg\" align=left width=200 height=146><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/dot.gif\" align=left width=11 height=146><br \/>\nIn Argentina, where I grew up, tea time is an honored tradition carried out by grandmothers and elderly aunts everywhere.  Families with children usually have a <i>merienda<\/i>, a meal that consists of a hot drink (tea, a latte, chocolate milk, hot chocolate, mate cocido) with cookies, toast or pastries, perhaps relegating tea time for weekends or for when they have guests.  But practically everyone has a tea pot and a nice set of tea china waiting to be used.<br \/>\nWhen I was growing up, I had tea time at my grandmother&#8217;s house twice a week or so, when I visited her.  By necessity it was at a little after 5, when I got off school, though the more usual time for tea was 4 PM.  Everyday tea, served in a regular pot, was served, like a merienda, with cookies and toast or scones with butter and jam.  On special occasions, most commonly when we had guests, special pastries (masas finas) and delicate sandwiches (s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Argentina, where I grew up, tea time is an honored tradition carried out by grandmothers and elderly aunts everywhere. Families with children usually have a merienda, a meal that consists of a hot drink (tea, a latte, chocolate milk, hot chocolate, mate cocido) with cookies, toast or pastries, perhaps relegating tea time for weekends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}