{"id":404,"date":"2011-08-05T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=404"},"modified":"2011-10-20T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T19:02:31","slug":"raw-bloody-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Raw, Bloody Flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eileene wants to try poke (poh-KAY) when we go to Hawaii.  We will, of course.  Half the reason we travel anywhere is for the food.  (Yes, even when we visit family.  Mom&#8217;s cooking.  Sampling new restaurants.  Genuine Filipino food.)  And I&#8217;ve got a code of honor concerning new food: I have to try at least a bite, preferably two.<\/p>\n<p>But poke&#8230;  Oh boy.  Chunks of raw fish are a dubious start, though freshness helps.  I still haven&#8217;t adapted to sushi, though I can enjoy salmon sushi when I&#8217;m in the right mood, and I can eat three or four other types without relish.  But take chunks of fresh raw fish and toss them with seaweed flakes and seasonings, producing a mucilaginous, um&#8230; sauce.  You could hear the <em>squlickglup<\/em> as the chef at islands&#8217; most celebrated poke place prepared a batch for the Food Channel cameras.  Eileene was delighted; I was severely put off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try it.  I will.  Oh boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileene wants to try poke (poh-KAY) when we go to Hawaii. We will, of course. Half the reason we travel anywhere is for the food. (Yes, even when we visit family. Mom&#8217;s cooking. Sampling new restaurants. Genuine Filipino food.) And I&#8217;ve got a code of honor concerning new food: I have to try at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}