{"id":1324,"date":"2021-10-10T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2021-10-10T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:48:48","slug":"i-is-for-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/10\/i-is-for-ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"I is for Ice Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1325\" src=\"http:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/I-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ice cream means summer to us.\u00a0 We literally count the season by how many weeks the ice cream shops are open! This favorite confection was once limited to the elite.\u00a0 Currently the price of a cone from an ice cream shop is running around $5 per cone,\u00a0 which does start to crimp the budget if we are eating it almost daily (which Alan does through the season).\u00a0 Thankfully I can find ice cream on sale pretty regularly for about $2.50 per half gallon, which can sustain him for a week, so he never feels deprived.<\/p>\n<p>Ice cream hasn&#8217;t always been so readily available.\u00a0 The origins of ice cream are debatable, Romans and Chinese Royalty are both referenced.\u00a0 Imagine that the earliest version of this treat would have some poor soul being sent off on an expedition to travel through the desert then climb the highest mountains to collect glacial ice, which was sweetened by fruits!\u00a0 It is not hard to imagine then that this treat was limited to royalty.<\/p>\n<p>It would take until the 1700&#8217;s before being brought to the United States.\u00a0 American Colonists would be the first to call it &#8220;Iced Cream&#8221;, which would later be shortened to the phrase we know today.\u00a0 With the introduction of mechanical refrigeration sometime around 1897 the product could be sold in a commercial setting.\u00a0 It would take another 7 years before the ice cream cone would debut at the St. Louis World Fair, finally making the treat portable.<\/p>\n<p>Today there are so many flavors to choose from.\u00a0 We could probably spend hours at an ice cream counter trying to figure out what we want&#8230;hard or soft, what flavor, toppings or not, cake cone, sugar cone or cup.\u00a0 The options are endless.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for certain, with an ice cream shop in nearly every town we visit, we never deprive ourselves of this sweet treat.\u00a0 Life is simply too short to miss an opportunity for these tiny blissful moments.\u00a0 Even though ice cream is easily accessible these days, there is still associated with special occasions and if living itself isn&#8217;t reason to celebrate, then I don&#8217;t know what is&#8230;eat the ice cream and imagine yourself a royal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice cream means summer to us.\u00a0 We literally count the season by how many weeks the ice cream shops are open! This favorite confection was once limited to the elite.\u00a0 Currently the price of a cone from an ice cream shop is running around $5 per cone,\u00a0 which does start to crimp the budget if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,74,20],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-abc-by-the-word","category-blog","tag-ice-cream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}