{"id":63,"date":"2020-04-01T05:46:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T05:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/?p=63"},"modified":"2020-04-01T05:46:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T05:46:58","slug":"tuesday-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/2020\/04\/01\/tuesday-march-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let it be known that on March 31st, Arley Cruthers officially achieved the status of Queen of Carbs. I&#8217;ve made cakes and pies and tarts and bread and basically every baked good under the sun, but there was one baked-good nemesis I couldn&#8217;t conquer: the carbohydrate Bowser at the end of my culinary Super Mario Bros, if you will. The simple pancake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve never been able to make pancakes. They&#8217;ve always been raw in the middle, burnt on the outside, burnt and raw, too thin, too thick or just plain gross. But today, I used a cast iron pan, and pancake victory was mine. Perfect pancakes! So easy! I felt very domestic, flipping flapjacks on my cast iron pan. Is there such thing as a Pandemic Merit Badge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the pancakes were a hit. Dot ate 2! And then something else happened. For the first time in 20 days, my husband agreed to take Dot outside. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I love our daily wanders, but I&#8217;m trying to work full-time and I have chronic pain, and it was nice to have a day&#8217;s reprieve. For the first time in 20 days, I was alone in the house. The silence was really strange. Instead of grading, I used my newfound glorious 45 minutes of freedom to&#8230;.mop the floor. But, for a moment there was silence, gleaming floors that smelled faintly of grapefruit, and the sun shining in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then like 2 hours later my gleaming floors got covered in paint because a toddler wanted to paint and also wanted to make me look like Daniel Tiger. The biggest mystery was that she also carefully painted my nails. I don&#8217;t paint my nails. I have no idea where she picked this up, but she was very attentive. My first manicure since my wedding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/files\/2020\/04\/20200331_172622-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Arley's arm with tiger stripes painted n it, and painted &quot;nails.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-64\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it be known that on March 31st, Arley Cruthers officially achieved the status of Queen of Carbs. I&#8217;ve made cakes and pies and tarts and bread and basically every baked good under the sun, but there was one baked-good nemesis I couldn&#8217;t conquer: the carbohydrate Bowser at the end of my culinary Super Mario [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}