{"id":312,"date":"2023-09-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/10\/cocktail-hour-porch-golden-half-hour\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T14:00:00","slug":"cocktail-hour-porch-golden-half-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/10\/cocktail-hour-porch-golden-half-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocktail Hour on the Porch. The Golden Half Hour."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I treat the porch between six and seven like a ceremony. Soft music, one simple pitcher\u2014Aperol spritz in summer, something warm in winter\u2014nuts, olives, a ribbon of good cheese. No full meal yet. Just arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Cocktail hour is when strangers become dinner friends. I introduce people with a detail they can latch onto: Mara just hiked the coast trail, James fixes vintage radios. Conversation starts itself.<\/p>\n<p>I keep a light wrap basket for chilly evenings because I am a hostess who has seen goosebumps kill a good story. Details are love.<\/p>\n<p>You do not need alcohol to do this. Sparkling water with citrus works. The point is pause, face-to-face, before the plates arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before dinner, after daylight\u2014when conversation loosens and nobody is hungry enough to be cranky yet.<\/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-312","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\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}