{"id":6243,"date":"2019-06-08T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2019-06-08T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:50:56","slug":"breakfast-round-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=6243","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast &#8217;round the table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Capturing this pair of bluebirds &#8217;round the breakfast table this morning reminded me of another pair of &#8220;lovebirds&#8221; doing the same thing since 1949. That&#8217;s when my mom and dad were married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I&#8217;m not a very nostalgic kind of guy, I remember many wonderful meals &#8217;round our table &#8211; especially breakfast. Mom would fix sausage, eggs, and toast, and dad would hoist me up on his lap and go about thrashing the meat and eggs into tiny pieces. Why? 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The same kind of thrashing goes on, but not the lap part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1214\" height=\"814\" data-attachment-id=\"6244\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?attachment_id=6244\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HMoran-19226.jpg?fit=1214%2C814&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1214,814\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Hal Moran&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1559986871&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;copyright by Hal Moran&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;191&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HMoran-19226\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HMoran-19226.jpg?fit=1200%2C805&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/halmoran.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HMoran-19226.jpg?fit=1200%2C805\" alt=\"Breakfast 'round the table.\" class=\"wp-image-6244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HMoran-19226.jpg?w=1214&amp;ssl=1 1214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HMoran-19226.jpg?resize=1050%2C704&amp;ssl=1 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HMoran-19226.jpg?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HMoran-19226.jpg?resize=1200%2C805&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HMoran-19226.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HMoran-19226.jpg?resize=600%2C402&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capturing this pair of bluebirds &#8217;round the breakfast table this morning reminded me of another pair of &#8220;lovebirds&#8221; doing the same thing since 1949. 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Mom would fix<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=6243\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Breakfast &#039;round the table<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=6243\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Breakfast &#039;round the table\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Capturing this pair of bluebirds &#8217;round the breakfast table this morning reminded me of another pair of &#8220;lovebirds&#8221; doing the same thing since 1949. 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