{"id":1751,"date":"2020-02-22T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2020-02-22T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:38:12","slug":"more-february-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1751","title":{"rendered":"More February Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Besides being the generally accepted date of George Washington\u2019s <em>real<\/em> birthday, today is National Margarita Day. The February celebrations continue\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The margarita was originally created in Mexico in 1938. Various people have taken credit for \u201cinventing\u201d the margarita, so you can pick your favorite \u2014&nbsp;but I choose Carlos \u201cDanny\u201d Herrera who claims that he developed the drink at his restaurant in Tijuana.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The margarita\u2019s popularity really took off in the late 1940s\u2026 Margarita Sames, a Dallas socialite, served the drink at one of her big parties, and one of her guests happened to be Tommy Hilton. Hilton liked it so much, he added the drink to the bar menu at his hotels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course the cocktail became more popular when singer Jimmy Buffet made the margarita popular with his mega-hit \u201cMargaritaville.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll celebrate the day with our own margarita recipe at home or go to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants here in West Virginia. Of course to do it right, we should go to the famous restaurant, Margaritaville \u2014 but Nashville is a long drive, even if it is a special day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you\u2019ll all do your duty and honor this sacred tequila, Triple Sec and lime drink by having a couple. Let\u2019s keep this fabulous February holiday spirit alive.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides being the generally accepted date of George Washington\u2019s real birthday, today is National Margarita Day. The February celebrations continue\u2026. The margarita was originally created in Mexico in 1938. Various people have taken credit for \u201cinventing\u201d the margarita, so you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1751\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}