{"id":2380,"date":"2014-12-12T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:23:13","slug":"today-is-brigids-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"Today is Brigid&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HA! She asked me for an omelette pan, which I&#8217;m happy to get her (got two actually) since I like omelettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brigid, two months ago, near Bear Mountain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"835\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d0a7260c970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11359\" title=\"P1050268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d0a7260c970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d0a7260c970c-500wi-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past history on gifts to Brigid:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we were both living in Jamaica (which is where I met Brigid &#8211; we were both teaching in different schools in Mandeville, JA), I went off the Island in the summer of &#8217;78 (we met February 17th, 1978, at a party at my house {that she crashed} although I&#8217;d seen her around town prior to this and asked about her {was told she had a boyfriend at the bottom of Shooter&#8217;s HIll, which turned out to not be true [I think]}.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I wrote her over the summer (1978 &#8211; before email) and asked what I could bring back for her. She wrote back asking me for a &#8220;wok&#8221; &#8211; which I had no idea what it was &#8211; and not to buy a junky or cheap wok but a really good, high quality one. So I got some advice and brought back a really, really, good one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it worked out very well for me &#8211; Brigid still uses it and it woks up great food!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HA! She asked me for an omelette pan, which I&#8217;m happy to get her (got two actually) since I like omelettes. Brigid, two months ago, near Bear Mountain &nbsp; Past history on gifts to Brigid: When we were both living in Jamaica (which is where I met Brigid &#8211; we were both teaching in different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11360,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/11360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}