{"id":28,"date":"2003-07-13T20:38:34","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T20:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=28"},"modified":"2003-07-13T20:38:34","modified_gmt":"2003-07-13T20:38:34","slug":"suckered-by-cool-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Suckered by cool packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Hedi took a finishing techiques class at the Braid Box, a yarn shop in Saratoga, CA, so I went up with her to goof around. I had enough time to go to Mitsuwa Market, a Japanese supermarket in San Jose. It was heavenly walking down aisle after aisle of ethnic foods! I was quite parched by then, so I decided to get a beverage. In Japan, they have many, many different kinds of canned and bottled tea. I was just going to get some sort of green (well, it&#8217;s actually brown) tea, but then I saw this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/japanese tea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"japanese tea.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/japanese tea-thumb.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOkay, how cool is that bottle? It is a sleek aluminum bottle of Tea Soda! I should have been scared off by the &#8220;orange sugar&#8221; ingredient, but I wasn&#8217;t. As you can probably guess, the beverage itself was quite disgusting, but hey, the bottle is still neato.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Hedi took a finishing techiques class at the Braid Box, a yarn shop in Saratoga, CA, so I went up with her to goof around. I had enough time to go to Mitsuwa Market, a Japanese supermarket in San &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=28\">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-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}