{"id":297,"date":"2022-03-04T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/04\/brunch-for-twelve-sanity\/"},"modified":"2022-03-04T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T12:15:00","slug":"brunch-for-twelve-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/04\/brunch-for-twelve-sanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunch for Twelve Without Losing Your Mind."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve people for brunch sounds romantic until you are holding a spatula and someone asks if you have oat milk, almond milk, or whatever milk their cousin discovered in California. I love them anyway. I plan anyway.<\/p>\n<p>My rule: one main dish that holds in the oven, one big salad, fruit on a platter like a painting, and bakery pastries I do not pretend I made. I am a hostess, not a martyr. Mimosas are optional; hydration is not.<\/p>\n<p>Set the table the night before. Put out labels for dietary needs without making anyone tell the whole table their medical history. Keep the coffee going like a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>When guests offer to help, say yes with a specific task. People want to belong. Brunch is church for people who sleep in on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frittata, fruit, one pot of coffee that never stops, and the rule about not being a hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertaining"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}