{"id":1280,"date":"2002-12-13T17:53:38","date_gmt":"2002-12-13T22:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2002-12-13T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2002-12-13T22:53:38","slug":"wasabi-peas-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"Wasabi Peas on Earth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoo!  Forget coffee!  These are real magic wakeup pellets!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe me?  Find a sleeping person and stuff one up their nose, you&#8217;ll see.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know whose idea this was, but it&#8217;s great: Take a deep fried veggie and lightly coat it with super-hot wasabi.  It tastes a lot better than it sounds, and it clears your sinuses like nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>The more I think about it, the more I wonder about the origin of this snack food.  Pretty much the only connection between wasabi and pea is the green color.  Is there some mad flavor inventor working away in a lab in Japan, developing snack food based entirely on color?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoo! Forget coffee! These are real magic wakeup pellets! Don&#8217;t believe me? Find a sleeping person and stuff one up their nose, you&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}