{"id":2223,"date":"2013-04-23T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2013-06-15T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:20:42","slug":"taste-if-maine-event-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"Taste of Maine Event in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/20130423-163945.jpg\" alt=\"20130423-163945.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, April 23rd I attended the inaugural &#8220;Taste of Maine&#8221; event hosted by Maine&#8217;s Senate delegation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collins.senate.gov\/public\/\">Susan Collins<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king.senate.gov\/\">Angus King<\/a>. I brought with me 14 pounds of Maine cheese from 14 different cheese makers to show how diversified and delicious the award winning cheeses of Maine can be.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6639-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_6639-001\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6639-001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6639-001-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former State veterinarian Don Hoenig, who is currently serving a fellowship in Washington, DC, encouraged the Guild to get involved, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainechamber.org\/mx\/hm.asp?id=home\">Maine State Chamber of Commerce<\/a> organized the event, which went off without a hitch. It took place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/briefing\/Caucus_Room.htm\">Kennedy Caucus Room<\/a> on the third floor of the Russell Senate Office Building across the street from the Capitol. The beautiful room, and the abundance of good Maine food, made for a very successful event.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2234\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2234\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6654.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Senators Collins and King\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6654.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6654-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Maine Senators address the Taste of Maine attendees<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6659.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Kennedy Caucus Room\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6659.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6659-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JaW8GYxENeo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, April 23rd I attended the inaugural &#8220;Taste of Maine&#8221; event hosted by Maine&#8217;s Senate delegation: Susan Collins, and Angus King. I brought with me 14 pounds of Maine cheese from 14 different cheese makers to show how diversified and delicious the award winning cheeses of Maine can be. Former State veterinarian Don Hoenig, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-guild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}