{"id":53,"date":"2007-12-17T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/17\/fun-times-at-solera\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T01:51:16","slug":"fun-times-at-solera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/17\/fun-times-at-solera\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun times at Solera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished things up at home then headed out to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solerawinebar.com\/\">Solera Wine Bar<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myspace.com\/solerawinebar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/images\/MySpace_13x13overFFFFFF.gif\" alt=\"MySpace link\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"13\" \/><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=647+South+Ave,+Rochester,+NY&amp;ll=43.142926,-77.604461&amp;spn=.014247,.028494&amp;hl=en\">647 South Ave.<\/a>) for a glass of wine.  There were three guys at the end of the bar and I'm listening but I couldn't quite pin down what it is they're talking about: something to do with countries all over the world, expensive things &mdash; or at least something to do with high-society, and they like it.  I'm stumped.  The bartender knows them and introduces me: they're wine dealers.  And they brought a selection of wines to share amongst one another &mdash; and now me as well.  They're all excellent.  For the sake of talking about it, I wish I could recall what they were.  It was fun to get my nose to work again &mdash; I was actually able to pick out aromas and relate them to other things.  It was a fascinating game: cooked asparagus &#8230; burnt cherries &#8230; walnut meat &#8230; turpentine.  Fine wines are the bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished things up at home then headed out to Solera Wine Bar (647 South Ave.) for a glass of wine. There were three guys at the end of the bar and I'm listening but I couldn't quite pin down &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/17\/fun-times-at-solera\/\">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":[4,50],"tags":[279,255,101,280],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-food","tag-expensive","tag-solera","tag-wine","tag-wine-tasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}