{"id":1818,"date":"2011-07-13T16:54:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T07:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-07-13\/1818"},"modified":"2011-07-13T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T07:54:41","slug":"the-innocent-honesty-of-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-07-13\/1818","title":{"rendered":"The Innocent Honesty of a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1818'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>So the other day I cooked dinner, <span class='nobr'>a stir<\/span>-fry with various separate\ningredients that <span class='nobr'>I intended<\/span> to bind together by simmering in tomato sauce.\nHowever, <span class='nobr'>I hadn't<\/span> paid enough attention to what <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> on hand, and the can\nof tomato sauce turned out to be <span class='nobr'>a can<\/span> of cut tomatoes in water. <span class='nobr'>The result<\/span> was\n<span class='nobr'>a fairly<\/span> bland soppy mess.<\/p>\n\n<p>Each ingredient (wieners, broccoli, bacon, tofu, eringi mushrooms,\nshiitake mushrooms, the tomatoes, etc.) tasted okay on its own, but it felt\ndisconnected and haphazard, and overall was <span class='nobr'>a disappointment.<\/span> <span class='nobr'>As we ate<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I\nexplained<\/span> to 8&frac12;-year-old Anthony what my intentions had been, and when <span class='nobr'>I noted<\/span> the\nun-unified thrown-together result, he said, without the slightest hint of\nmalice, &#8220;yeah, like pig food&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p style='margin-top:35px' class='subtle'>(<span class='nobr'>I couldn't<\/span> help but laugh\ndespite the overwhelming desire to cry at the veracity of the statement.\nFumie said that she thought it was a &#8220;Veggie Festival&#8221;\n  <span class='nobr'>(\u91ce\u83dc\u796d\u308a), <\/span>\nbut <span class='nobr'>I think<\/span> she was just trying to make me feel better.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I cooked dinner, a stir-fry with various separate ingredients that I intended to bind together by simmering in tomato sauce. However, I hadn't paid enough attention to what I had on hand, and the can of tomato sauce turned out to be a can of cut tomatoes in water. The result was a fairly bland soppy mess.<\/p> <p>Each ingredient (wieners, broccoli, bacon, tofu, eringi mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, the tomatoes, etc.) tasted okay on its own, but it felt disconnected and haphazard, and overall was a disappointment. As we ate I explained to 8&frac12;-year-old Anthony what my [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}