{"id":218,"date":"2012-02-26T21:41:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T09:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2012-02-26T21:41:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T09:41:03","slug":"high-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2012\/02\/high-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"High Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been to &#8216;High Tea&#8217; before, but I knew it was posh, so I made sure I flossied myself up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaOutfit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219\" title=\"Blog26FebHighTeaOutfit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaOutfit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaOutfit.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaOutfit-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I met my friends (the Scrapmates who had been at our place last month) at the James Cook Hotel&#8217;s Whitby Restaurant. Very classy &#8211; I&#8217;m glad I dressed up! Once we had all arrived and settled at our window tables we ordered tea from a selection of ten choices &#8211; I had Green Tea with Jasmine &#8211; and coffee for those who just couldn&#8217;t do without. Then the plates arrived. I shared a gluten-free platter with Kris:&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaFood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220\" title=\"Blog26FebHighTeaFood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaFood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaFood.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaFood-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>As the food was so exquisite, I took close-up photos of every layer. It tasted as good as it looks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-225\" title=\"Blog26FebHighTeaLayer1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer12-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer12-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer12.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-226\" title=\"Blog26FebHighTeaLayer2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer21-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer21-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer21-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer21.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-227\" title=\"Blog26FebHighTeaLayer3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer31-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer31-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer31-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Blog26FebHighTeaLayer31.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We were there for over two and a half hours and discussed all manner of things, as we tend to do. The world set to rights for at least five minutes, we left for our regular lives, encouraged and enlivened by our get together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been to &#8216;High Tea&#8217; before, but I knew it was posh, so I made sure I flossied myself up: I met my friends (the Scrapmates who had been at our place last month) at the James Cook Hotel&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2012\/02\/high-tea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,11],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-food","tag-scrapmates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}