{"id":102,"date":"2019-03-30T01:47:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T01:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2019-03-30T01:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T01:47:26","slug":"thank-god-its-fryday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/amy-woodruff\/thank-god-its-fryday\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank God It&#8217;s Fryday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always enjoy Lent &#8230; Ash Wednesday is the\u00a0<em>real\u00a0<\/em>New Year&#8217;s Day in South Louisiana. And part of my own Lenten tradition is hitting as many Catholic church fish fry fundraisers as possible.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve only managed to catch three this year because it&#8217;s been a busy month. But there&#8217;s still a few more Fridays before Easter so I hope to keep the process rolling. Here I&#8217;ll document the ones I&#8217;ve had this month. All delicious!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201144_161551671480425.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201144_161551671480425-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"March 15, 2019: fish plate from Archbishop Rummel High School's fishing club. Have been picking up this one for several years now &amp; it's always magnificent. They were one of the first drive thru versions I had ever been to.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201144_161551671480425-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201144_161551671480425-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201144_161551671480425.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 15, 2019: fish plate from Archbishop Rummel High School&#8217;s fishing club. Have been picking up this one for several years now &amp; it&#8217;s always magnificent. They were one of the first drive thru versions I&#8217;d ever been to.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201106_161552613735685.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201106_161552613735685-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"March 29, 2019: St Benilde Catholic Church fish plate. Been going here for several years also; always a treat. This is one of my favorite little churches in Metry. And this year, they added a drive thru option! Used to be a huge line in their school cafeteria. \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201106_161552613735685-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201106_161552613735685-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201106_161552613735685.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 29, 2019: St Benilde Catholic Church fish plate. Been going here for several years also; always a treat. This is one of my favorite little churches in Metry. And this year, they added a drive thru option! Used to be a huge line in their school cafeteria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201120_161552126525633.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-106\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201120_161552126525633-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"March 29, 2019: St Rita Catholic Church combo fish\/shrimp plate. First year I've tried their fry &amp; it was reallly good. They're actually located in Harahan.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201120_161552126525633-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201120_161552126525633-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Resized_20190329_201120_161552126525633.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 29, 2019: St Rita Catholic Church combo fish\/shrimp plate. First year I&#8217;ve tried their fry &amp; it was reallly good. They&#8217;re actually located in Harahan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other ones I&#8217;ve tried in previous years include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>St Ann Catholic Church &amp; Shrine (off Transcontinental Ave)<\/li>\n<li>St Mary Magdalene Catholic Church\u00a0(West Metairie Ave)<\/li>\n<li>St Edward Catholic Church (West Metairie Ave)<\/li>\n<li>Our Lady of The Rosary Catholic Church (Esplanade Ave)<\/li>\n<li>St Joseph Catholic Church (Tulane Ave)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think there may be a couple more, but those were rather memorable. Churches fry the best fish. Haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always enjoy Lent &#8230; Ash Wednesday is the\u00a0real\u00a0New Year&#8217;s Day in South Louisiana. And part of my own Lenten tradition is hitting as many Catholic church fish fry fundraisers as possible. So far I&#8217;ve only managed to catch three this year because it&#8217;s been a busy month. But there&#8217;s still a few more Fridays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}