{"id":173355572,"date":"2020-08-23T19:47:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casey.com\/blog\/?p=173355572"},"modified":"2020-08-23T20:21:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T00:21:45","slug":"a-mojito-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2020\/08\/23\/a-mojito-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mojito Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cWill it be a regular mojito?\u201d, she asked. \u201cNo my darling,\u201d I replied. \u201cIt will be raspberry, and it will be fabulous!\u201d<\/p><\/amp-fit-text>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWill the mojitos be raspberry?\u201d, my love asked. \u201cNo my darling,\u201d I replied. \u201cThey will be mango, and they will be magnificent!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWill the mojitos be mango?\u201d, my love asked. \u201cNo, mi amore.\u201d, I replied. \u201cThey will be passion fruit and kiwi, and they will be magical!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWill the mojitos be passion fruit and kiwi?\u201d, my American woman asked. \u201cNo, my lady liberty\u201d, I replied. \u201cThey will be watermelon and blueberry, and they will let our freedom ring!\u201d ??<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWill the mojitos be watermelon?\u201d, my reason for living asked? \u201cNo, mon amie,\u201d I replied. \u201cThey will be peach mojitos, and they will be peachy!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWill you put peaches in the mojitos?\u201d, my Darling asked. \u201cNo, my Darling. Clementines!\u201d, I exclaimed, \u201cand soon they\u2019ll be gone forever, but not lost. We\u2019ll know just where they went.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWill you put Clementines in the mojitos?\u201d, my adored asked. \u201cNo, you silly woman,\u201d I replied. \u201cI put the lime in the coconut, and pineapple too, in the mojito. Drink \u2018em bot up and you\u2019ll feel good in the morning!\u201d ? ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Where is our charcuterie board from @americanfarmhousedesigns ?” my love asked. “I’m using it for the mojito photo!”, I replied. “Will they be coconut pineapple mojitos” she queried? “No sweetness,” I replied, “They will be strawberry and I will dedicate them to batman!” “Who?” she followed up. “My friend @igotitdude he made the board, and we once called him batman. I don’t remember why. But it must have been something beautiful like YOU my dear!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was only Saturday when my love asked, \u201cWhy are you making the mojitos today darling?\u201d \u201cBecause I need it now!\u201d, I replied lovingly. \u201cWill they be strawberry?\u201d \u201cBerry berry baby!\u201d, I shouted with affection. \u201cBut which berry?\u201d, my daughter wondered aloud. \u201cBlackberry and raspberry baby!\u201d, I screamed adoringly to my almost 30 year old baby! \u201cAnd I made enough for ALL of us!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Will the mojitos be berry berry?” my love asked. “No my sugar plum, they will be plum plum!”. “Sugar plums?”, she wondered aloud. “Black plums and red plums”, I answered adoringly. “And they will be plum-tastic!”.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWill the mojitos be plum\u201d, my wife of 33 years asked? \u201cNo darling, I replied. It will be a regular mojito.\u201d, I responded passionately. \u201cWhat\u2019s in a regular mojito?\u201d, she asked. \u201cLove baby, mojitos are always made with LOVE!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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WTF is this all about, really??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK, let me explain. My wife and I enjoy a drink. A good beer, a nice cocktail, it can bring some extra spice, some joie de vivre to life (redundant no?). We like mojitos! Mojitos are easy and awesome, and lend themselves to experimentation. And we have a mint plant on our front porch step. So all summer long, I made mojitos. And very early on, I heard voices when doing so. No, I’m not a nutjob (as far as YOU know), but the voices in my head as I made mojitos were of a romanticized hollywood-ish dialogue of a dashing leading man and gorgeous film starlet, discussing the mojito that I was making.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yeah, look at it that way, my weekly binge drinks was just a response to the voices in my head. I’m OK with that. Nevertheless, I make an awesome mojito.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWill it be a regular mojito?\u201d, she asked. \u201cNo my darling,\u201d I replied. \u201cIt will be raspberry, and it will be fabulous!\u201d \u201cWill the mojitos be raspberry?\u201d, my love asked. \u201cNo my darling,\u201d I replied. \u201cThey will be mango, and they will be magnificent!\u201d \u201cWill the mojitos be mango?\u201d, my love asked. \u201cNo, mi amore.\u201d, I replied. \u201cThey will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173355572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidetolife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-bJnHC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173355572"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173355625,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355572\/revisions\/173355625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173355572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173355572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173355572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}