{"id":25405,"date":"2014-12-10T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=25405"},"modified":"2014-12-10T19:31:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T00:31:48","slug":"diy-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=25405","title":{"rendered":"A DIY Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Jordan is traveling for work this week, and I am in charge of the\u00a0blog.\u00a0 After all, it&#8217;s the least I can do since she took care of it for almost a month when we took our <a title=\"Bicycling in Germany\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2014\/12\/03\/bicycling-germany\/\">last trip<\/a>.\u00a0 Even though we shared our <a title=\"Our Hostess Gift Ideabook\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2014\/12\/08\/hostess-gift-ideabook\/\">Houzz Ideabook <\/a>\u00a0this week\u00a0that was loaded with great hostess gift suggestions, I prefer to make the hostess gifts that I give.\u00a0 Sometimes I take homemade granola and muffins so the host and hostess will have a delicious breakfast all ready for the next morning.\u00a0 Sometimes we take a bottle of Heitz wine.\u00a0 (There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heitzcellar.com\/\">Heitz wine cellar<\/a> in California that makes excellent wine.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we aren&#8217;t related to them, but we did visit their winery and meet them.)\u00a0 This year I am taking homemade apple butter that I made in the slow cooker yesterday.\u00a0 You can find the recipe that I use<a title=\"Slow Cooker Apple Butter Recipe\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/11\/11\/slow-cooker-apple-butter-recipe\/\"> here<\/a>.\u00a0 If we are invited to your house, then you know what you are getting.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-25413\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Slow-Cooker-Apple-Butter-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Slow Cooker Apple Butter\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Slow-Cooker-Apple-Butter-681x1024.jpg 681w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Slow-Cooker-Apple-Butter-215x323.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>We are curious.\u00a0 Please let us know what you like to give\/take as hostess gifts.\u00a0 Do you like to make them or buy them?\u00a0 Maybe we can get some new ideas.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Take care.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan is traveling for work this week, and I am in charge of the\u00a0blog.\u00a0 After all, it&#8217;s the least I can do since she took care of it for almost a month when we took our last trip.\u00a0 Even though we shared our Houzz Ideabook \u00a0this week\u00a0that was loaded with great hostess gift suggestions, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[26,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25452,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25405\/revisions\/25452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}