{"id":2192,"date":"2008-01-05T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T20:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2008-01-05T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T21:28:43","slug":"back-in-the-saddle-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"Little Pink Houses All in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walked Loca for a long time this morning and then rushed home to get an hour and a half bike ride in before mom got here this morning for our Saturday brunch. It was glorious &#8211; perfect temperature &#8211; no jacket required &#8211; and I rode out to the point and back but hit a headwind that made me feel like the witch cycling in the Wizard of Oz.\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>We went to Caffeo on Dumaine and Burgundy in the Bywater and had a delicious breakfast of crepes and lattes. There was a nice diverse crowd with a sprinkling of kids and dogs thrown into the mix. All and all, a high recommend on my list of brunch places mom and I have frequented.\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>J was with us and afterwards we drove out to the 9th ward to the see the Pink Houses that dot the blighted landscape &#8211; part of St. Brad&#8217;s endeavor out there to raise money to restore the community. It was pretty cool &#8211; the frames are outlines of proposed housing that costs between $150K and $175K and they are covered in pink plastic. His organization &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #363636; font-size: 13px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeitrightnola.org\/\">MakeItRightNOLA.org<\/a> &#8211; <\/span>is hoping to raise money to get this project going in the 9th ward first but then as a catalyst for the rest of the city. As the new Patron Saint of New Orleans &#8211; St. Brad gets very high marks from me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked Loca for a long time this morning and then rushed home to get an hour and a half bike ride in before mom got here this morning for our Saturday brunch. It was glorious &#8211; perfect temperature &#8211; no jacket required &#8211; and I rode out to the point and back but hit a headwind that made me feel like the witch cycling in the Wizard of Oz.\u00a0We went to Caffeo on Dumaine&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-zm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}