{"id":231,"date":"2008-02-26T22:46:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T05:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/seattle\/231"},"modified":"2008-02-26T22:46:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T05:46:35","slug":"the-taste-of-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"The Taste of SAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Lauren and I flexed our underutilized membership and had a cultural Sunday afternoon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/\">SAM<\/a>. They have a fantastic exhibit on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/exhibit\/interactives\/rome\/rome.asp\">Roman art from the Louvre<\/a> that opened this weekend. &nbsp;I was surprised at how extensive the exhibit was (large enough that I&#8217;ll have to return for a second go around before it&#8217;s through on April 6th).&nbsp; They also have three panels on temporary loan from Ghiberti&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/exhibit\/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=11541\">Gates of Paradise<\/a>. All ten panels have been under years of restoration, and they are on a final run before returning to a hermetically sealed chamber in Florence (at the Musee dell&#8217;Opera del Duomo).<\/p>\n<p>We also stopped at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/visit\/taste.asp\">TASTE<\/a> (the new restaurant at SAM) for lunch. TASTE is all about local organic ingredients, with a bunch of soup, sandwich, and salad options at lunchtime. I thoroughly enjoyed my tomato soup w\/grilled cheese. I also snuck a taste of Lauren&#8217;s squash soup, which was delicious. I plan to return for dinner and we&#8217;ll be sure to bring our camera \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Lauren and I flexed our underutilized membership and had a cultural Sunday afternoon at SAM. They have a fantastic exhibit on Roman art from the Louvre that opened this weekend. &nbsp;I was surprised at how extensive the exhibit was (large enough that I&#8217;ll have to return for a second go around before it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}