{"id":3800,"date":"2009-01-10T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T17:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2009-01-10T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T17:45:04","slug":"eating-bugs-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/eating-bugs-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Bugs in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason eating grasshoppers and larvae in Thailand does not gross me out nearly as much as eating baby squid in China. Maybe it&#8217;s the crunch factor.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I love about Thailand is that I enjoy so much of the food. It&#8217;s the best overall food I&#8217;ve had in my life from any country. I mean &#8211; I like Thai food like I like peanut butter sandwiches; and that&#8217;s A LOT.<\/p>\n<p>At a local gathering for National Children&#8217;s Day in Thailand today we had an all day feast of food, ice cream and liquor. And around sundown came out the primo drinking snacks &#8211; cruncy grasshopper and chewy larvae. They weren&#8217;t disguised or covered in sauce, they were just staring at you. So the big question is: What does grasshopper taste like? Mmmm&#8230;..a bit like wild locust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason eating grasshoppers and larvae in Thailand does not gross me out nearly as much as eating baby squid in China. Maybe it&#8217;s the crunch factor. One of the things I love about Thailand is that I enjoy so much of the food. It&#8217;s the best overall food I&#8217;ve had in my life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,46],"tags":[2004,2003,2013,4103,2008,2011,2014,2005,2019,2006,2012,2020,2017,2009,2018,2016,2007,2015,2010,497],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-Zi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}