{"id":3348,"date":"2024-07-21T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2024-07-21T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T23:02:35","slug":"black-pork-cheeks-fries-political-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3348","title":{"rendered":"Black Pork Cheeks, Fries, Political Football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Redondo-1.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Redondo-1.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3349\" style=\"width:345px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We were winding around the margins of a small village in the margins of Portugal,\u00a0<br \/>looking for a late Sunday night dinner.\u00a0\u00a0Earlier there had been sun-drenched<br \/>empty alleys\u2026now a traditional room, wooden sideboards with wine glass <br \/>on crocheted lace. White tablecloths layered with sheaths of white paper.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Dried thistle, old gourds as d\u00e9cor.\u00a0\u00a0Bright white glow coming from a <br \/>Magnum ice cream freezer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A girl in a princess dress looks back at her parents as she races for ice cream.\u00a0<br \/>In this forgotten corner of rural Portugal, the three other diners<br \/>clutch phones to their ears, shouting Kamala!\u00a0\u00a0Then Biden, then back to\u00a0<br \/>Harris\u2026 the balding 30-something with his scruffy beard,\u00a0 the chubby bespectacled companion, the woman with\u00a0flowing dark hair, all consumed by the political stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their pork cheeks arrive, they fill glasses with more local wine<br \/>from their carafe; order another, gesticulate, talk to each other,<br \/>talk to their phones, in mixed languages \u2013the word of the day,<br \/>Crazy, crazy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were winding around the margins of a small village in the margins of Portugal,\u00a0looking for a late Sunday night dinner.\u00a0\u00a0Earlier there had been sun-drenchedempty alleys\u2026now a traditional room, wooden sideboards with wine glass on crocheted lace. White tablecloths layered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3348\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1470,1042,1472,433,1467,1469,1471,15,1468],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alentejo","tag-biden","tag-global-consciousness","tag-portugal","tag-presidential-race","tag-provincial","tag-redondo","tag-travel","tag-us-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-S0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}