{"id":304,"date":"2004-07-15T20:22:35","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T20:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=304"},"modified":"2004-07-15T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T20:22:35","slug":"did-something-die-in-here-or-are-you-drinking-pu-erh-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"did something die in here, or are you drinking Pu-Erh tea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/pu erh tea.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pu erh tea.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/pu erh tea-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI have been stuck in the blogging doldrums for a few days. Feeling guilty, I decided I&#8217;d better blog about SOMETHING, ANYTHING. So, in order to drum up some blogging fodder, I decided to brew a cup of China Pu-Erh tea that my friend Greg kindly (or not so kindly) sent me to sample. He told me that it was the nastiest, stinkiest tea he&#8217;d ever tried. This is understandable, as &#8220;Pu-Erh teas have a strong, earthy flavor and aroma due to a double fermentation during which the tea leaves actually begin to decompose&#8221; (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uptontea.com\">Upton Tea<\/a>). Mmmm, sounds appetizing, doesn&#8217;t it? Dead, decomposing tea. Those wacky Chinese! Anyway, it wasn&#8217;t quite as disgusting as I thought it was going to be, though the aroma and taste did remind me of the dark, dank, dirt-floored areas of my grandmother&#8217;s ancient house in the humid Japan countryside.<br \/>\nSo that&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been stuck in the blogging doldrums for a few days. Feeling guilty, I decided I&#8217;d better blog about SOMETHING, ANYTHING. So, in order to drum up some blogging fodder, I decided to brew a cup of China Pu-Erh &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}