{"id":442,"date":"2012-11-30T21:33:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T05:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/politika\/?p=442"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:10:20","slug":"celebrating-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/11\/30\/celebrating-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final reading for Political Science 332 was Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/catalog\/general\/subject\/Politics\/AmericanPolitics\/?view=usa&amp;ci=9780199832637\">The Tea Party and the Remaking of American Conservatism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The students convinced me to have a real tea party to add some frivolity to our discussion of the book. \u00a0Inspired by their interest&#8211;and by an evening on my own&#8211;I went cook crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the menu:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currant Scones<\/li>\n<li>Mock Devonshire Cream<\/li>\n<li>Lemon Curd<\/li>\n<li>Smoked Salmon and Cucumber Sandwiches<\/li>\n<li>Egg Salad Sandwiches<\/li>\n<li>Scotch Eggs<\/li>\n<li>3 layer patriotic red white and blue Mickey Mouse jello mold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I stopped counting the eggs and heavy cream at the scotch eggs, but rolling six eggs in a pound of pork sausage and then frying them was a real experience!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the pictures for hungry (and envious) readers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/11\/30\/celebrating-the-tea-party\/65391_10151125893906898_999106076_n-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-447\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/65391_10151125893906898_999106076_n1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/65391_10151125893906898_999106076_n1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/65391_10151125893906898_999106076_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/11\/30\/celebrating-the-tea-party\/598584_10151125761341898_328984218_n-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-448\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/598584_10151125761341898_328984218_n1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/598584_10151125761341898_328984218_n1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/598584_10151125761341898_328984218_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/11\/30\/celebrating-the-tea-party\/406927_10151125566811898_1801124838_n-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-449\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/406927_10151125566811898_1801124838_n1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/406927_10151125566811898_1801124838_n1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/406927_10151125566811898_1801124838_n1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/11\/30\/celebrating-the-tea-party\/252358_10151125729591898_867604217_n-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-450\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-450\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/252358_10151125729591898_867604217_n1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/252358_10151125729591898_867604217_n1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/11\/252358_10151125729591898_867604217_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final reading for Political Science 332 was Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson&#8217;s book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of American Conservatism. The students convinced me to have a real tea party to add some frivolity to our discussion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/11\/30\/celebrating-the-tea-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-paul-gronke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}