{"id":1978,"date":"2011-02-17T06:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2011-02-17T06:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:27:31","slug":"plenty-of-blowfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of Blowfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night after work I went out with some of my students to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fugu\">fugu<\/a> restaurant near the office.  The food was delicious, and they served plenty of blowfish in various forms for everyone.  We ate it raw as sashimi, in soup as nabe, even fried as karaage.  It was good to talk with everyone in English and also to try to improve my Japanese skills &#8211; they were kind enough to endure my broken Japanese. Also in the restaurant was a large fish tank full of live blowfish swimming around awaiting their day of reckoning.  It was a good reminder of the before while we enjoyed the after. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re nearing the end of the week, and I&#8217;m looking forward to the chance to sleep in.  These cold mornings have made it tough to get up on time.  I think I&#8217;ll have a couple of days to catch up on my sleep coming up.  I&#8217;m also happy about the upcoming return of Survivor and The Amazing Race &#8211; I love that stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night after work I went out with some of my students to a fugu restaurant near the office. The food was delicious, and they served plenty of blowfish in various forms for everyone. We ate it raw as sashimi, in soup as nabe, even fried as karaage. It was good to talk with everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-vU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}