{"id":27,"date":"2009-08-05T22:36:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T22:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-08-06T04:42:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T04:42:23","slug":"my-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"My Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running for King of the East Nashville Tomato Arts Festival on a Bacon and Basil platform.\u00a0 The annual festival draws 12-18,000 people to celebrate all things tomato. I believe bacon and basil are the primary ingredients in a recipe for success in living an abundant life. And there&#8217;s too much pork in Washington. I\u00a0 think we should bring the bacon home, and here&#8217;s my plan for doing that:<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<TABLE WIDTH=200><br \/>\n<TR><TD COLSPAN=2 WIDTH=200><br \/>\n<B>Bacon-wrapped, stuffed and drunk cherry tomato tots<\/B><\/TD><\/TR><\/p>\n<p><TR><TD WIDTH=100>1 pint cherry tomatoes<\/TD><TD>2 Tbs chopped fresh basil<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD>1 lb bacon<\/TD><TD>2 Tbs milk<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD>4 oz softened cream cheese<\/TD><TD>3 Tbs maple syrup<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD>2 oz softened goat cheese<\/TD><TD>1 Tbs bourbon<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD COLSPAN=2>Slice top from tomato and scoop out pulp.\u00a0 Mix 2 cheeses, milk, basil and salt &amp; pepper. Spoon cheese mixutre into a plastic sandwich bag, snip corner, pipe cheese into tomato.\u00a0 Cut bacon in half lengthwise. Wrap tomato with bacon, covering opening, fry till crisp. Mix maple syrup and bourbon, drizzle &#8220;liberally&#8221; over tomatoes. Yummm!<\/TD><\/TR><\/TABLE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running for King of the East Nashville Tomato Arts Festival on a Bacon and Basil platform.\u00a0 The annual festival draws 12-18,000 people to celebrate all things tomato. I believe bacon and basil are the primary ingredients in a recipe for success in living an abundant life. And there&#8217;s too much pork in Washington. I\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianforking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}