{"id":2137,"date":"2011-09-13T05:57:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2011-09-13T05:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:57:30","slug":"liver-holiday-military-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"Liver Holiday, Military Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the parties and drinking over the weekend, last night we gave our livers a break and had just soda water and juice.  Dinner was a very healthy dish &#8211; cold udon noodles topped with kamaboko and green onions, and I had a small bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch for dessert. <\/p>\n<p>Cinnamon Toast Crunch?  Where did you find that in Japan, Bryan?  Junky cereals that remind me of my childhood are definitely hard to come by in Japan.  I&#8217;ve found some mail order companies that will sell them to you for 2000 yen a box.  That&#8217;s $25 US dollars for one box of sweetened oats.  Until recently I refrained from buying from them &#8211; the allure wasn&#8217;t quite strong enough to fork over the big bucks. <\/p>\n<p>Last week I was talking with one of the inspectors at work.  He&#8217;s ex-military, and he told me that he often goes to the commissary at Iwakuni military base to do shopping, and sure &#8211; he could pick me up some cereal.  I gave him a list of four cereals that I was looking for, and yesterday he delivered three of them to me. <\/p>\n<p>I asked for and received two boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, one of Captain Crunch, and one Peanut Butter Captain Crunch.  Unfortunately they didn&#8217;t carry Golden Grahams.  He joked that perhaps the Marine Corp didn&#8217;t consider Golden Grahams to be quite manly enough for them.  But I didn&#8217;t care &#8211; I got three of my old favorites &#8211; four boxes for ten US dollars.  <\/p>\n<p>So this week I&#8217;ll be working on sweetened cereal in the morning, and try not to think about what this stuff is doing to my intestines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the parties and drinking over the weekend, last night we gave our livers a break and had just soda water and juice. Dinner was a very healthy dish &#8211; cold udon noodles topped with kamaboko and green onions, and I had a small bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch for dessert. Cinnamon Toast Crunch? [&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-2137","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-yt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","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=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}