{"id":16,"date":"2002-07-16T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2002-07-16T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2002\/07\/16\/85253380\/"},"modified":"2002-07-16T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2002-07-16T14:11:02","slug":"85253380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/16\/85253380\/","title":{"rendered":"85253380"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cleaning, scraping and painting has finally started at the new chez moi and there&rsquo;s no time and space to do any fancy summer cooking right now. Thank god <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blork.org\/blog\/index.shtml\">Blork<\/a> is there to make sure that I don&rsquo;t lose any weight (yeah, thanks&#8230;) and keep my energy level up by feeding me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blork.org\/blog\/2002_07_01_arc.shtml#85252425\">good stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But even the best cooks take a break sometimes, so this weekend I finally dragged a bunch of my loved ones, including my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/images\/bluehair_nephews.jpg\">blue haired nephews<\/a>, to Patati-Patata at the corner of St-Laurent and Rachel, so that they could finally get to taste the famous Patatine I had been raving about. Blork does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blork.org\/blog\/2002_07_01_arc.shtml#85250198\">a great description<\/a> of this somewhat healthy version of the well-known poutine, and there&rsquo;s even an appetizing photo of it on his web site. Believe me, making a poutine look this good on a picture is quite an exploit.<\/p>\n<p>After the meal, we shopped around on St-Laurent, accompanied by my South Shore nephews, who had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/images\/street_nephews.jpg\">dressed for the occasion<\/a> and looked perfectly at home on this funky Montreal street.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&rsquo;s back to painting for me. I wish I could just take the whole apartment and dip it in a gigantic bucket full of white paint, then let it drip and dry. Does anybody know if such an invention exists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cleaning, scraping and painting has finally started at the new chez moi and there&rsquo;s no time and space to do any fancy summer cooking right now. Thank god Blork is there to make sure that I don&rsquo;t lose any weight (yeah, thanks&#8230;) and keep my energy level up by feeding me good stuff. But&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/16\/85253380\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">85253380<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}