{"id":113,"date":"2006-08-19T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T13:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/08\/19\/open-that-bottle-ii\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T00:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T04:14:24","slug":"open-that-bottle-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/113","title":{"rendered":"Open That Bottle II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janet and Jerome joined us at the Simpson cabin to open some bottles and indulge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/uj\/2006\/03\/01\">our Epicurean leanings<\/a>. We stared with crack-&amp;-peel shrimp and a zesty gazpacho, added a plate of fruit and cheese, which was followed by a main course of grilled ka-bobs with garden vegetables, marinated lamb and venison (from the 2004 Martini-Henry buck), plus asparagus pinwheels, red-cabbage slaw and Mexican jicama, closing with a frozen strawberry dessert. To accompany our extraordinary menu we tasted a merely satisfactory Californian chardonnay, an interestingly ancient South African cabernet, and a magnificent Sonoma Valley pinot noir, in addition to a bright, smooth sherry from Texas. Before our &#8220;guests&#8221; arrived, David provided me an opportunity to shoot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/04\/04\">my Enfield military .303 rifle<\/a> and British &#8220;foxhole&#8221; revolver, both surprisingly accurate, once I learned the peculiarities of the sights. While we were up at the range, he tested his .577\/450 double rifle and quickly nailed a small iron target at 300 yards&#8212;twice. This man is a sharpshooter. Maybe I can get Jerome to come earlier next time. I know he&#8217;d also enjoy shooting targets with these antique arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet and Jerome joined us at the Simpson cabin to open some bottles and indulge our Epicurean leanings. We stared with crack-&amp;-peel shrimp and a zesty gazpacho, added a plate of fruit and cheese, which was followed by a main course of grilled ka-bobs with garden vegetables, marinated lamb and venison (from the 2004 Martini-Henry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,29,8,65,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}