{"id":3960,"date":"2014-04-05T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T21:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:32:07","slug":"i-made-tea-eggs-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2014\/04\/i-made-tea-eggs-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I made tea eggs today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/TeaEggs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3962\" alt=\"TeaEggs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/TeaEggs-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/offbeatchina.com\/what-a-humble-tea-egg-tells-about-the-gap-between-mainland-china-and-taiwan\">Apparently <\/a>this makes me both a multi-millionaire and part of cross-straits relations. I have not kept up as much as I should with the current Taiwan protests, but Offbeat China has. and they claim that tea eggs are one of the things that both sides are using as a symbol (both real and snarky) of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, mine are not real tea eggs, since<\/p>\n<p>1. I did not meet Dr. Who, steal the Tardis, go back to the Shang dynasty and build a 7-11 and then put the eggs in a crockpot and let them simmer for 3,000 years. That would be a proper Taiwan tea egg.<\/p>\n<p>2. I only made them because we had too many eggs and everyone I know likes tea eggs. No rhetorical points about China, Taiwan, democracy, identity, etc. Just eggs. And tea.<\/p>\n<p>3. They taste good, but maybe I should have used one more star anise. Always hard to judge that.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/offbeatchina.com\/what-a-humble-tea-egg-tells-about-the-gap-between-mainland-china-and-taiwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently this makes me both a multi-millionaire and part of cross-straits relations. I have not kept up as much as I should with the current Taiwan protests, but Offbeat China has. and they claim that tea eggs are one of the things that both sides are using as a symbol (both real and snarky) of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119,123,161,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english","category-food","category-taiwan","category-web-sites-and-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-11S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}