{"id":982,"date":"2008-11-01T23:57:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-11-01\/982"},"modified":"2008-11-01T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:57:12","slug":"fish-that-looks-like-an-apple-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-11-01\/982","title":{"rendered":"Fish That Looks Like an Apple Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic tight'><a name='JF7_003827' href=\"\/i\/JF7_003827.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_003827_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Apple-Pie Shaped Fish -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i003827\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\ntitle=\"Apple-Pie Shaped Fish -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 55 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4, ISO 1400 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_003827.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Apple-Pie Shaped Fish<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>That caption might not make sense at first, but read on...<\/p>\n\n<p>Yesterday was Fumie's dad's 60th birthday, which is <span class='nobr'>a major<\/span> life event\nin Japanese culture, and so this evening we had <span class='nobr'>a party<\/span> for him. Among the\nvast quantity of food was <span class='nobr'>a fish<\/span> called a <i>tai<\/i> (\u9bdb), which is served\nat auspicious events due to the somewhat corny reason that its name is the\nfinal sound of <i>omedetai<\/i>, &#8220;auspicious&#8221;. (It probably felt much less\ncorny ages ago when the tradition began, because back then, <span class='nobr'>a gift<\/span> of food\nwas <span class='nobr'>a true<\/span> gift indeed.)<\/p>\n\n<p>Anyway, on Fumie and my 10th wedding anniversary earlier this year, her\nmom got us an <a href=\"\/blog\/2008-05-16\/817#052424\">apple\npie shaped like one of these fish<\/a> as <span class='nobr'>a tasty<\/span> joke. <span class='nobr'>And hence<\/span> the caption above.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='JF7_003857' href=\"\/i\/JF7_003857.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_003857_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Yikes! ( tastes much better than it looks ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i003857\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\ntitle=\"Yikes! ( tastes much better than it looks ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/5, ISO 2500 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_003857.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Yikes!<\/span>\n<br\/>( tastes much better than it looks )\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>To leave on a less, er, toothy note, here's <span class='nobr'>a closeup<\/span> of the detail on the wrapper of <span class='nobr'>a pair<\/span> of chopsticks...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='JF7_003836' href=\"\/i\/JF7_003836.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_003836_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Chopstick Wrapper ( that's a lady in kimono, if you couldn't tell ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i003836\"\ntitle=\"Chopstick Wrapper ( that's a lady in kimono, if you couldn't tell ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/5, ISO 1250 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_003836.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Chopstick Wrapper<\/span>\n<br\/><span class='subtle'>( that's <span class='nobr'>a lady<\/span> in kimono, if you couldn't tell )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That caption might not make sense at first, but read on...<\/p> <p>Yesterday was Fumie's dad's 60th birthday, which is a major life event in Japanese culture, and so this evening we had a party for him. Among the vast quantity of food was a fish called a tai (\u9bdb), which is served at auspicious events due to the somewhat corny reason that its name is the final sound of omedetai, \"auspicious\". (It probably felt much less corny ages ago when the tradition began, because back then, a gift of food was a true gift indeed.)<\/p> <p>Anyway, on Fumie and my [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}