{"id":144,"date":"2008-04-30T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=144"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:22:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:22:18","slug":"cooking-in-caracas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/cooking-in-caracas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking in Caracas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on day 3-of-4 here in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=caracas,+venezuela&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=7.514981,-67.060547&#038;spn=10.094887,16.325684&#038;z=6\">Caracas, Venezuela<\/a>: a short visit to a long-time customer, and a chance to say hi to a good friend who seems to always be taking care of me in South America, Mr. Francisco Lopez. I&#8217;m ready for some cooler Toronto weather, because it&#8217;s 30+ degrees here every day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My camera battery was almost dead, but I managed to get a couple pictures. Here&#8217;s one of Francisco and I in the parking lot outside where I&#8217;ve been working (doh! I was looking at somebody else when this was taken!&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 256px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/travel\/n701895367_2823109_323.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"Francisco Lopez and I in Caracas, Venezuela, April 30th 2008. Too bad I was looking at somebody else when this pic was taken...\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=144\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/travel\/n701895367_2823109_323.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/travel\/thumbs\/thumbs_n701895367_2823109_323.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"27\"\n             data-title=\"n701895367_2823109_323.jpg\"\n             data-description=\"Francisco Lopez and I in Caracas, Venezuela, April 30th 2008. Too bad I was looking at somebody else when this pic was taken...\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=144\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_69cec570dd325ec9db1e6aa6a4221079\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/travel\/cache\/n701895367_2823109_323.jpg-nggid0227-ngg0dyn-0x192x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"n701895367_2823109_323.jpg\"\n             title=\"n701895367_2823109_323.jpg\"\n              width=\"256\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.a snapshot from the car of the road that we take to lunch every day (area is called &#8220;El Hatillo&#8221; &#8211; on the sign)&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/general\/april-2008-caracas\/el_hatillo_1024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/general\/april-2008-caracas\/el_hatillo_192.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and a &#8220;legacy&#8221; picture of the &#8220;La Trinidad&#8221; hospital&#8230; where a coworker ended up during my last trip about a year ago: what I think was food-poisoning mixed with a bad diabetic reaction: talk about a rough trip for him!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/general\/april-2008-caracas\/la_trinidad_1024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/general\/april-2008-caracas\/la_trinidad_192.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Flying home soon, then my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastridingschool.com\/\">track-day<\/a> on Monday. Can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on day 3-of-4 here in Caracas, Venezuela: a short visit to a long-time customer, and a chance to say hi to a good friend who seems to always be taking care of me in South America, Mr. Francisco Lopez. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/cooking-in-caracas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Cooking in Caracas&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-2k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}