{"id":599,"date":"2005-10-03T20:25:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=599"},"modified":"2005-10-03T20:25:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T20:25:27","slug":"those-wacky-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"those wacky japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday I spent the entire day unpacking the kitchen. The kitchen is, well, funky, so I ended up leaving most items packed and stored in the basement. We still have quite a few boxes to unpack, but at least this house is bigger, so we can just cram boxes into a spare room and forget about them for a bit.<br \/>\nAnyway, you can probably imagine that I have had no time to knit or crochet or sew or do much of anything. I don&#8217;t even remember the last time I picked up knitting needles! Isn&#8217;t that terrible? I have, however, managed to shop a bit and discovered some quirky little items to share with you.<br \/>\nExhibit A:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/toothpaste.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"toothpaste.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/toothpaste-thumb.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center> I was at Nordstrom the other day and saw a big rack of tiny tubes of oddly flavored toothpaste. Can you GUESS what country these are from? Yes, they are from my people. I got grapefruit, powdered green tea (cuz they had more than one flavor of green tea, ya know), and Darjeeling tea. They had quite a few flavors, including pumpkin pudding and some curry flavor. That sounds really gross to me, but hey, I guess if you REALLY like curry &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday I spent the entire day unpacking the kitchen. The kitchen is, well, funky, so I ended up leaving most items packed and stored in the basement. We still have quite a few boxes to unpack, but at least this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=599\">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-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}