{"id":6308,"date":"2012-05-15T21:33:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T01:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=6308"},"modified":"2012-05-15T21:33:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T01:33:02","slug":"so-what-didnt-i-eat-in-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/15\/so-what-didnt-i-eat-in-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"So what didn’t<\/i> I eat in Peru?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It occurs to me that since I’ve told you what I ate in Peru, from multiple servings of guinea pig<\/a> to a marvelous meal of octopus and goat<\/a>, I should also tell you what I didn’t<\/em> eat.<\/p>\n

So … where did I draw the line?<\/p>\n

At a crowded food stall in Cuzco’s main market, I found people slurping away at bowls of soup beneath the following sign.<\/p>\n

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And why not? Who wouldn’t want to be cured of epilepsia<\/em> or dolor de cabeza<\/em>?<\/p>\n

But the problem was … well …<\/p>\n

You know the old saying that if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day?<\/p>\n

You do? Then you’ll know what I saw beneath that sign, eagerly waiting to be dropped into my soup.<\/p>\n

That’s right.<\/p>\n

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Frogs!<\/p>\n

I decided to let them live another day. Or another few minutes, until some local bought a bowl of soup in hopes of being cured of prostrata<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Are you disappointed in me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It occurs to me that since I’ve told you what I ate in Peru, from multiple servings of guinea pig to a marvelous meal of octopus and goat, I should also tell you what I didn’t eat. So … where did I draw the line? At a crowded food stall in Cuzco’s main market, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-6308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-peru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}