{"id":226,"date":"2003-03-17T22:58:53","date_gmt":"2003-03-17T22:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=226"},"modified":"2003-03-17T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2003-03-17T22:58:53","slug":"chopsticks-or-a-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/03\/17\/chopsticks-or-a-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Chopsticks Or A Fork?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got confused tonight about the appropriate utensil(s) for eating salad. (I haven&#8217;t really been eating western-style salads over here in Japan, so this hasn&#8217;t come up before.) I automatically grabbed some chopsticks, but after a few bites I thought to myself, &#8220;This just isn&#8217;t right, is it?&#8221; So I got a fork, which I&#8217;ve always used to eat salad. But it didn&#8217;t feel quite right either. I went back to the chopsticks, but now I have no idea which feels more natural in this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got confused tonight about the appropriate utensil(s) for eating salad. (I haven&#8217;t really been eating western-style salads over here in Japan, so this hasn&#8217;t come up before.) I automatically grabbed some chopsticks, but after a few bites I thought to myself, &#8220;This just isn&#8217;t right, is it?&#8221; So I got a fork, which I&#8217;ve&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/03\/17\/chopsticks-or-a-fork\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chopsticks Or A Fork?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-3E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}