{"id":1,"date":"2014-05-29T04:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T04:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartasheck.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-08-09T08:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:35:21","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"The very first &#8220;Smarta Sheck&#8221; blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2022 Updates will be&nbsp;<\/em><i>italicized.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No, my name isn&#8217;t &#8220;Smarta Sheck.&#8221; It&#8217;s Tina. My blog-slash-website&#8217;s name is &#8220;Smart as Heck.&#8221; &nbsp;(&#8220;Smarta Shell&#8221; was already taken.)&nbsp;<em>Still true.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing the blog because I need a bigger audience. <em>Really?<\/em>&nbsp;My current audience is my family, and sometimes there are friends too, upon whom I lavish the details of my current homemaking experiments. Some friends are interested; some want to run away. Some probably want to punch me in the face because they work at full-time jobs and can&#8217;t even manage to unpack a box of instant rice, while I&#8217;m creating stuff at home. &nbsp;Most of it is pretty good too; that&#8217;s why my family puts up with me. Lately I&#8217;ve been perfecting the recipe for white sandwich bread. So my kids are being fairly nice, although they do NOT want to hear the details of how I coaxed even more YUM into the bread this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>I haven&#8217;t made that fantastic white bread in 5 years. It was a Julia Child recipe. So good&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some of you out there on the internets might like to hear about it, though!&nbsp;<em>Uhhhhhhhh&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I just want to share my experiences with like-minded people, or at least with those of you who are interested, whether or not you will actually try some of these things yourselves. Oh, and I don&#8217;t just cook. &nbsp;I garden and landscape, I sew, I paint&#8230; I brewed my first batch of beer for a friend&#8217;s birthday last December. &nbsp;(We used his supplies; now we are &#8220;keeping&#8221; the stuff at our house!)&nbsp;<i>That beer was good. Now we buy our beer in bottles that someone else brewed,&nbsp;like normal people.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>By the way, I do NOT think I am &#8220;smart as heck.&#8221; I like to take other people&#8217;s smart ideas and see if they work for me, too. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t think my dogs are as smart as heck, either. &nbsp;However, a picture or two may pop up on my blog (see above photo.)&nbsp;My dogs are Cutea Sheck.&nbsp;<em>No matter how cute your dog is, the wheels of time roll on. We are now down to only one dog, Biggie&nbsp;<\/em><i>Smallz.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 Updates will be&nbsp;italicized. No, my name isn&#8217;t &#8220;Smarta Sheck.&#8221; It&#8217;s Tina. My blog-slash-website&#8217;s name is &#8220;Smart as Heck.&#8221; &nbsp;(&#8220;Smarta Shell&#8221; was already taken.)&nbsp;Still true. I&#8217;m doing the blog because I need a bigger audience. Really?&nbsp;My current audience is my family, and sometimes there are friends too, upon whom I lavish the details of my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/?p=1\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The very first &#8220;Smarta Sheck&#8221; blog post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[96],"tags":[7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"wbAuthor":{"name":"Tina DeSoto","link":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/?author=1"},"wbDate":"May 29, 2014","wbCategories":{"space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/?cat=96\" rel=\"category\">Things I'm Thinking About<\/a>","coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/?cat=96\" rel=\"category\">Things I'm Thinking About<\/a>"},"wbComment":2,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/image8-e1401748427928.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IwZW-1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}