{"id":87,"date":"2002-12-16T23:53:41","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T04:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2002\/12\/16\/90061108\/"},"modified":"2002-12-16T23:53:41","modified_gmt":"2002-12-17T04:53:41","slug":"90061108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/16\/90061108\/","title":{"rendered":"90061108"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>She&rsquo;s real!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/images\/blogfromabroad_medium.jpg\"><IMG SRC=\"\/blog\/images\/blogfromabroad_small.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"133\" height=\"194\" alt=\"Meet sweet Lisa and Paul! Click to enlarge and make them even more real.\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when you meet people on the Web and it takes a while before you meet face to face, you start wondering if these people are real, and if they exist outside of your computer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, tonight I had dinner with Lisa, who maintains a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wittydomainname.com\/\">Blog from a Broad<\/a>, and I can tell you that not only is she real, she&rsquo;s real sweet! She brought me two big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candystand.com\/terrys\/\">chocolate orange Crunch Balls <\/a> all the way from England! Lisa, who used to live in Montreal, shares my interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinaforepages.com\/\">men who wear aprons<\/a> in the same way Scottish guys wear kilts, and she also shares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002_11_01_archive.html#85690335\">my love for orange flavored chocolate<\/a>. (Please note that these two interests are unrelated.) <\/p>\n<p>We had a big Mexican dinner in Old Montreal and there were a lot of people around the table, but I managed to talk to her and her beau for a little while, and I can now confirm that they do exist. Even after a few margaritas, they were still there. (Check out the size of the drinks on the photo!) Now I&rsquo;m going to go check and see if these chocolate oranges are real as well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&rsquo;s real! Sometimes when you meet people on the Web and it takes a while before you meet face to face, you start wondering if these people are real, and if they exist outside of your computer&#8230; Well, tonight I had dinner with Lisa, who maintains a Blog from a Broad, and I can tell&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/16\/90061108\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">90061108<\/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\/87"}],"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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}