{"id":226,"date":"2006-04-19T07:33:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T11:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/belly-up-to-the-bar\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T20:53:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:53:54","slug":"belly-up-to-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/belly-up-to-the-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Belly-Up to the Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/bellyup.jpg\" alt=\"Belly Up To the Bar\" \/><br \/>\nAs far as I know, my Mother coined the phrase &#8220;Belly-Up to the Bar&#8221;.  It&#8217;s basically a call for my children to come and eat!  The Architect who invented this table built opposite the kitchen deserves an award.  It&#8217;s such a convenient way to &#8220;slop&#8221; the hogs in between sit down family meals.  The food goes straight from being prepared in the kitchen to their expectant mouths with a simple flick of the wrist.<\/p>\n<p>I knew these days would come, and in reality It&#8217;s just barely starting.  Be that as it may, it still doesn&#8217;t negate the fact that I&#8217;m having trouble keeping up with appetites.  Four gallons of milk per week, a box of cereal demolished in a single sitting!  Pounds of cheese, multiple loafs of bread, dozens of eggs&#8230; it numbs the mind.  To this end, I&#8217;ve taken to shopping Sam&#8217;s Club again and buying everything in bulk.  Simple things like ketchup and mayonnaise I&#8217;m bringing home now in vats instead of jars.  I couldn&#8217;t find enough room in the cabinets to store all the food which prompted me to create the &#8220;Granary&#8221; which is a topic I&#8217;ll leave for another blog.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like one of them &#8220;momma&#8221; birds with a nest full of chicks with their mouths constantly open screaming for food.  Erick is only 12 years old and is in a size 10 shoe for men, I wear a size 9!  WTF is up with that?  I&#8217;ve always been under the impression that having big feet is an omen of tallness.  I am not a tall guy, like 5&#8217;8&#8243; at best, Wendy is pushing 5&#8217;2&#8243; and I fail to understand how we bred gargantuan bottomless pits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I know, my Mother coined the phrase &#8220;Belly-Up to the Bar&#8221;. It&#8217;s basically a call for my children to come and eat! The Architect who invented this table built opposite the kitchen deserves an award. It&#8217;s such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/belly-up-to-the-bar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}