{"id":723,"date":"2013-08-11T23:37:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T03:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/?p=723"},"modified":"2014-02-05T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T18:18:21","slug":"date-night-12-food-beer-and-wine-from-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Date Night #12 &#8211; Food, Beer and Wine From Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of the grand finale of the year&#8217;s Date Nights! We had a couple&#8217;s group Date Night. Each couple was asked\u00a0to choose a country and\u00a0to bring either a beer or wine and food from\u00a0that country. They were asked\u00a0to conceal\u00a0the identity of their country. Everyone went around tasting all the\u00a0food and drinks and tried to guess what country they originated from. They filled out sheets and voted on their favorite food, beer and wine. The couples with the most votes in each area won a gift basket inspired by different Date Nights that I have done through the year, so they could have their own Date Night. The grand prize was for the couple who guessed the most countries correctly. The prize for that is a recreation of my first Date Night. The lucky couple gets\u00a0to have a catered dinner on top of the Bull Pen overlooking downtown Toledo, with all the\u00a0trimmings. We were lucky to have a portion\u00a0of the band previously\u00a0known as Empire Drift play for us all evening. Great food, drinks, music and friends. Thank you to everyone who came and thank you to my husband Ed Beczynski for an amazing (interesting) 25 years of marriage! We will be celebrating our 26th this Wednesday on the 14th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC044652.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-753\" alt=\"DSC04465\" src=\"http:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC044652-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC044652-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC044652-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC044752-e1376271262106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-754\" alt=\"DSC04475\" 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We had a couple&#8217;s group Date Night. Each couple was asked\u00a0to choose a country and\u00a0to bring either a beer or wine and food from\u00a0that country. They were asked\u00a0to conceal\u00a0the identity of their country. Everyone went around tasting all the\u00a0food and drinks and tried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/?p=723\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datenights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}