{"id":17316,"date":"2019-07-13T22:05:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T02:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2019-07-23T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:14:58","slug":"jordan-almonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17316","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Almonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17318\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190713_167421.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17318\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190713_167421-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Almonds\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17318\" data-wp-pid=\"17318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190713_167421-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190713_167421-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190713_167421-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190713_167421-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190713_167421-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190713_167421.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Almonds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not much of a picture today, I&#8217;m afraid, but here are some Jordan Almonds, almonds coated in sugar with a pastel colored layer on the outside. These are often served at weddings, with&#x2014;I&#8217;m led to believe&#x2014;the &#x201c;bitter&#x201d; almonds and the &#x201c;sweet&#x201d; sugar symbolizing the bitterness of life and sweetness of love. I love almonds and adding sugar to them can only make them better. Frankly, I prefer the less pretentious (in my opinion) Nuql (or Noghl in Iran), the Persian sugared almonds that are just sugar without the smooth coat or colors added. But I&#8217;ll rarely turn these down, if that&#8217;s what&#8217;s offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much of a picture today, I&#8217;m afraid, but here are some Jordan Almonds, almonds coated in sugar with a pastel colored layer on the outside. These are often served at weddings, with&#x2014;I&#8217;m led to believe&#x2014;the &#x201c;bitter&#x201d; almonds and the &#x201c;sweet&#x201d; sugar symbolizing the bitterness of life and sweetness of love. I love almonds and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[1831,1830,1832,994,566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17320,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions\/17320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}