{"id":141,"date":"2007-12-26T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2007-12-26T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T21:33:28","slug":"day-9-122507-christmas-in-the-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Day 9 &#8211; 12\/25\/07 Christmas in the Van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/jay_christmas-1.jpg\" title=\"jay_christmas-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/jay_christmas-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"jay_christmas-1.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/christmas_dinner-1.jpg\" title=\"christmas_dinner-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/christmas_dinner-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"christmas_dinner-1.jpg\" \/><\/a> Since it was Christmas and nothing was going to be open anyway, we decided to take it easy and spend a day not doing much of anything.  We continued to camp in Brantley Lake SP since it was a nice campsite with pretty views of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas dinner in the van turned out to be a roaring success. Yesterday, we had gotten a roasted chicken from the deli at Albertsons and I made stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, and saut\u00c3\u00a9ed zucchini with  onions.  We also had cranberry sauce and apple pie with whipped cream for dessert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/val_christmas-11.jpg\" title=\"val_christmas-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/val_christmas-11.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"val_christmas-11.jpg\" \/><\/a>Cooking dinner wasn&#8217;t actually too difficult.  I have two small pots and a toaster oven (usable since we have shore power at the campsite).  Since the stuffing and mashed potatoes were &#8220;instant,&#8221; they were very easy.  The zucchini took a bit longer, but you can just set it and let it go.  The green beans were just canned, so no time sink there.  All in all, I&#8217;d estimate it took me about 30 minutes from start to finish to have Christmas dinner on the table.  Can&#8217;t beat that.  And Jay only had two pots and a tiny roasting sheet to clean up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it was Christmas and nothing was going to be open anyway, we decided to take it easy and spend a day not doing much of anything. We continued to camp in Brantley Lake SP since it was a nice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/?p=141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dec07-trip","category-travels"],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campervan.summet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}