{"id":130,"date":"2002-12-15T21:46:58","date_gmt":"2002-12-15T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=130"},"modified":"2002-12-15T21:46:58","modified_gmt":"2002-12-15T21:46:58","slug":"making-mochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/12\/15\/making-mochi\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Mochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student took me to a mochi-making gathering in her neighborhood this morning. Mochi is a rice treat made by pounding rice until it is sticky and smooth. Flavorings, including sweet red bean paste, are then added.<br \/>\nAbout five dozen people met on the grounds of a neighborhood shrine to make mochi and to roast sweet potatoes in a bonfire. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/photos\/2002\/mochi\/\">I&#8217;ve posted a few photos<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve also posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/photos\/2002\/winterbike\/\">photos of a bike trip I took yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student took me to a mochi-making gathering in her neighborhood this morning. Mochi is a rice treat made by pounding rice until it is sticky and smooth. Flavorings, including sweet red bean paste, are then added. About five dozen people met on the grounds of a neighborhood shrine to make mochi and to roast&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/12\/15\/making-mochi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Mochi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-japan","category-photos-flicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-26","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}