{"id":418,"date":"2010-01-13T18:07:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T05:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundbyyou.wordpress.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:36:02","slug":"waffles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Waffles!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Waffles!\"<\/a>

Waffles!<\/p><\/div>\n

“This is gonna be fun! We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning… I’m making waffles!”<\/em><\/a><\/em> – Eddie Murphy as Donkey in ‘Shrek’<\/em><\/p>\n

My lovely wife gave me a surprise gift a while back – a waffle iron.\u00a0 She managed to pick one up with some points on a store loyalty card.\u00a0 It is a gift filled with love because she didn’t want a waffle iron, firmly believing that, just like almost every other waffle iron on the planet, it will soon be gathering dust in a cupboard.\u00a0 I maintained otherwise and, though only time will tell who is right, it has had regular outings and even been used and a sandwich toaster.<\/p>\n

I mention all this because waffles played a small but symbolic part in our emigration.\u00a0 On our first morning as home-less, job-less and school-less emigrants, we stepped out into the bright sunlight of a Hollywood morning.\u00a0 Along with Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, Los Angeles was a stopover on our way to New Zealand (mentioned briefly in this post<\/a>) and, on the recommendation of LA blogger Sean Bonner<\/a>, we stayed at the trendy Farmer’s Daughter<\/a> in Fairfax Village.\u00a0 Across the street, as we discovered that first morning of our adventure, lay the Farmer’s Market<\/a> and there we had the kind of breakfasts that we had only ever seen in movies.\u00a0 Bacon, eggs, pancakes, juice, toast, waffles – we ordered large and reveled in the strange dislocation of being between lives, eating breakfast in the world capital of make-believe.<\/p>\n

That meal is a fond memory for me and the kids – a snapshot from our transition from inner city Londoners to rural township New Zealanders.\u00a0 It’s my hope that sharing Saturday morning waffles & maple syrup with the kids will become another tradition and memory to treasure.<\/p>\n

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\"L.A.

Breakfast in Los Angeles<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“This is gonna be fun! We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning… I’m making waffles!” – Eddie Murphy as Donkey in ‘Shrek’ My lovely wife gave me a surprise gift a while back – a waffle iron.\u00a0 She managed to pick one up with some points on a store loyalty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,442],"tags":[94,120,135,147,150,239],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-life","category-online","tag-farmers-market","tag-iron","tag-la","tag-maple-syrup","tag-memories","tag-waffle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216892745,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/216892745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}