{"id":14353,"date":"2015-09-12T19:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T11:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/?p=14353"},"modified":"2015-09-12T19:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T11:50:03","slug":"the-grounds-of-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/the-grounds-of-alexandria\/","title":{"rendered":"the grounds of alexandria."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14354\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-12_0002.jpg\" alt=\"2015-09-12_0002\" width=\"900\" height=\"612\" \/>Finally, after longing so much to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/thegrounds.com.au\/\">The Grounds of Alexandria<\/a> even before we migrated to Sydney when I read about them thru <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadsheet.com.au\/sydney\/food-and-drink\/directory\/cafe\/grounds-alexandria\">The Broadsheet<\/a>, today was officially the start of many more visits to come at this oh\u00a0so awe-inspiring-happy-place! If you know me too well, I&#8217;m a sucker to anything rustic and shabby. And The Grounds proved to be so much of that!! (can you even tell how much I hyperventilated?!) I haven&#8217;t even tasted the\u00a0Mains in their wholesome organic menu yet coz we went their after lunch but I surely intended to finally have a taste of their specialty roasted coffee &#8212; and it didn&#8217;t disappoint! And obviously, at the sight of their own organic garden which surrounded the whole place made me much crazy in\u00a0loveeeeee and knowing that they have some activities for kids like a mini animal farm, where Pixie enjoyed a lot, made me not worry about the distance to travel to them at any day I can come back again and again! <em>(I secretly wished to hopefully shoot an engagement or any lifestyle portraits there or imagine a garden wedding?! yes, they do events like weddings there and if you&#8217;re a Sydney bride reading this, i could faint if you do hire me! haha)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, here are some photos.<br \/>\nMy heart&#8217;s all content that I experienced our first visit with a\u00a0family weekend date!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14355\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-12_0003.jpg\" alt=\"2015-09-12_0003\" width=\"900\" height=\"671\" \/><img 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If you know me too well, I&#8217;m a sucker to anything rustic and shabby. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[725,543,723,732,731,726,729,728,727,108,730,582,733,695,724,722,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-14353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifes-musings","8":"tag-alexandria","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-broadsheet-sydney","11":"tag-food-blog","12":"tag-industrial","13":"tag-organic","14":"tag-organic-bakery","15":"tag-organic-cafe","16":"tag-organic-garden","17":"tag-rustic","18":"tag-shabby","19":"tag-sydney","20":"tag-sydney-cafe","21":"tag-sydney-weddings","22":"tag-the-grounds","23":"tag-the-grounds-of-alexandria","24":"tag-wedding"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-12_0003.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14404,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions\/14404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}