{"id":125,"date":"2009-06-16T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-06-16T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T18:30:27","slug":"when-japan-does-fruitcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/when-japan-does-fruitcake\/","title":{"rendered":"When Japan Does Fruitcake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now obviously on a blog dedicated to one of the most sophisticated cultural treasures to come out of the Land of the Rising Sun (I&#8217;m talking about Fudebakudo here, keep up at the back of the class) I&#8217;m hardly likely to suggest that the Japanese are one raisin short of the full cake mix. But .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. but .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. but .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. well, let&#8217;s just say, when Japan does fruitcake, it <i>overdoes<\/i> fruitcake:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maybeyoushouldntbuythat.com\/post\/109046874\/typically-food-serves-a-couple-of-purposes\" class=\"fbd_link_external\">Japanese Fruitcake<\/a> valued at a cool  $1.65&nbsp;million<\/p>\n<p>I have <i>met<\/i> a few Japanese fruitcakes in my time, some of whom got that way by having strayed too close to the edge of the martial arts&#8217; sanity vortex. But they weren&#8217;t encrusted with diamonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now obviously on a blog dedicated to one of the most sophisticated cultural treasures to come out of the Land of the Rising Sun (I&#8217;m talking about Fudebakudo here, keep up at the back of the class) I&#8217;m hardly likely to suggest that the Japanese are one raisin short of the full cake mix. But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/when-japan-does-fruitcake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Japan Does Fruitcake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}