{"id":433,"date":"2007-04-23T20:07:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-04-23\/433"},"modified":"2007-06-30T19:40:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T10:40:12","slug":"year-2-its-still-about-the-bento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-04-23\/433","title":{"rendered":"Year #2: It&#8217;s Still About the Bento"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a href=\"\/blog\/bentos\/jef_029178.html\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_029178_sm.jpg\" width=\"655\" height=\"480\"\nalt=\"Anthony's Bento Today Carrots, broccoli, various hand-made onigiri , shrimp, and as a treat, an apple-flavored kon'yaku jelly. -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i029178\"\ntitle=\"Bento for a Japanese preschooler\"\/><\/a><br\/><span\nstyle='font-size:175%'>Anthony's Bento Today<\/span><br\/>\n\nCarrots, broccoli, various hand-made <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Onigiri\">onigiri<\/a>, shrimp, and as <span class='nobr'>a treat,<\/span>\nan apple-flavored <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Konnyaku\">kon'yaku<\/a> jelly.\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The Japanese school year begins in April, and today was the first day\nfor some of the new first-year kids at Anthony's preschool to have their\nfirst bento. (It's <span class='nobr'>a big<\/span> day for them &mdash; see &#8220;<a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-05-31\/198\">It's All About The\nBento<\/a>&#8221; for the story about Anthony's first bento back when he was\n<span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> student last year, and &#8220;<a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-09-11\/243\" class='quiet'>First Bento of\nthe New Semester<\/a>&#8221; for <span class='nobr'>a mid<\/span>-term update.)<\/p>\n\n<p>Anthony's mid-year class started having bentos last week, but on the\noccasion of the big day for his new schoolmates, <span class='nobr'>I thought<\/span> I'd post today's\nbento. <span class='nobr'>It seems<\/span> Fumie was inspired by a <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-04-12\/420\">hanami<\/a> bento, which has\nmany small items, allowing for particularly easy, leisurely consumption. Of\ncourse, he ate it all up.<\/p>\n\n<p>As always, new bentos are added to the <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/bento\/\">recent bentos<\/a> page (<a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-01-26\/373\">described here<\/a>) as Fumie\nmakes them. (The bento that <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-01-27\/374\">Anthony once made for\nMommy<\/a> is not included, although it should be.)\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese school year begins in April, and today was the first day for some of the new first-year kids at Anthony's preschool to have their first bento. (It's a big day for them -- see \"It's All About The Bento\" for the story about Anthony's first bento back when he was a new student last year, and \"First Bento of the New Semester\" for a mid-term update.)<\/p> <p>Anthony's mid-year class started having bentos last week, but on the occasion of the big day for his new schoolmates, I thought I'd post today's bento. It seems Fumie was inspired by [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}