{"id":1013,"date":"2011-07-28T17:24:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2011-07-28T17:29:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:29:54","slug":"lemon-balm-and-mint-and-lemonade-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/lemon-balm-and-mint-and-lemonade-too\/","title":{"rendered":"lemon balm and mint (and lemonade too)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/110729_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/110729_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nKeeping busy making summertime concoctions, as well as drying herbs for fall&#8217;s tea-time weather. I made some refreshing vanilla-infused lemonade from organic lemons the other day (my little one wanted to help until he realized how sour the lemons were). But to me it was so delicious!<\/p>\n<p>\nYesterday I decided to harvest some mint and lemon balm from my mothers herb garden. It was so relaxing to be in the sun shine with the bees and monarch butterflies.  I made these into a few bunches and they are now hanging upside down to dry (their sweet smell filling my little studio room.) I can&#8217;t wait to see how my handcrafted tea blends turn out.  I think I am going to store them in old mason jars with pretty hand-drawn illustrated labels.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd thanks for all your sweet comments on my last post (about leaving my job). So far this summer has been such bliss, I couldn&#8217;t be happier.<\/p>\n<p>\nA side note-recently I have been snapping photographs with my iphone, which is quick and ok but I really, really need to start using my real camera again:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping busy making summertime concoctions, as well as drying herbs for fall&#8217;s tea-time weather. I made some refreshing vanilla-infused lemonade from organic lemons the other day (my little one wanted to help until he realized how sour the lemons were). But to me it was so delicious! Yesterday I decided to harvest some mint and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/lemon-balm-and-mint-and-lemonade-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;lemon balm and mint (and lemonade too)&#8221;<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-tea","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}