{"id":1133,"date":"2009-04-04T03:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T10:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/two-brief-reflections-about-japan"},"modified":"2009-04-04T03:25:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T10:25:15","slug":"two-brief-reflections-about-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/two-brief-reflections-about-japan","title":{"rendered":"Two Brief Reflections About Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is a society in which it has not been forgotten that courtesy and simple pleasantries require almost no additional effort, and yet make everyone&#8217;s day a little more pleasant.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0766 by Adam Schabtach, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/studionebula\/3411585916\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0766\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3299\/3411585916_e26010507a_b.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese cuisine has no fear of chewy things. I had something in my soup at lunch today (visible in the center bowl) which I think was slices of mushroom. It was surprisingly chewy&#8211;not unpleasantly so, but more resistant to being chewed than anything commonly found in American food that I can think of off the top of my head.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started posting photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/studionebula\/sets\/72157616334300228\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is a society in which it has not been forgotten that courtesy and simple pleasantries require almost no additional effort, and yet make everyone&#8217;s day a little more pleasant. Japanese cuisine has no fear of chewy things. I had something in my soup at lunch today (visible in the center bowl) which I think&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/two-brief-reflections-about-japan\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Brief Reflections About Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-2009","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}