{"id":260,"date":"2007-12-22T17:59:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2010-05-05T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T08:04:11","slug":"american-as-apple-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"American as Apple Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never lived in the Midwest. However, my dad grew up in Illinois,  so I was raised to enjoy a fair number of Midwestern traditions. One of  these is apple pie with cheddar cheese. My grandfather taught me a  wonderful saying when I was a very tiny girl.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Apple pie without some cheese is like a kiss  without a squeeze.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love apple pie with cheese. I was  raised to love it. But since I have never actually lived in a place  where people commonly enjoy apple pie with cheese, I routinely get  strange looks when I cut a nice, thick slab of cheddar to go with my  apple pie.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I ask you, what is so strange about this? People  drink milk with pie. People enjoy ice cream with pie. People scoop  large dollops of whipped cream onto their pie. Plenty of other dairy  products are perfectly acceptable to enjoy with pie.<\/p>\n<p>Just not  cheese. Except for those of us who know better.<\/p>\n<p>So, I challenge  you all this holiday season. Try this once. Cut a piece of quality  cheddar cheese (not nasty cheese), and try this with your apple pie. You  probably won&#8217;t be instantly converted to an  apple-pie-with-cheese-die-hard like me, but you might be surprised at  how well the flavors complement one another.<\/p>\n<p>Yum. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/services.shawnwilsher.com\/smilies\/lol.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never lived in the Midwest. However, my dad grew up in Illinois, so I was raised to enjoy a fair number of Midwestern traditions. One of these is apple pie with cheddar cheese. My grandfather taught me a wonderful saying when I was a very tiny girl. &#8220;Apple pie without some cheese is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}