Summer entertaining is my love language in flip-flops. I string lights early. I set a long table outside with mismatched chairs that somehow look intentional. Menu is simple: grilled fish or chicken, big salad, bread from the bakery, berries for dessert because nobody needs cake when strawberries are perfect.<\/p>\n
I invite a mix\u2014old friends, new neighbors, the couple we met at a KOA in New Mexico who sent a postcard all winter. Name tags optional. Introductions mandatory.<\/p>\n
We eat slow while the sky turns pink. Someone tells a story about a road trip or work or the year they failed a test and survived. I listen like a teacher, feed like a hostess, learn like a student.<\/p>\n
Thank you for reading McMarlington. Pull up a chair next time. There is always room. The spreadsheet can wait until morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Long light, cold ros\u00e9, grilled vegetables, and the table I wait for all winter.<\/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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}