{"id":34385,"date":"2013-03-02T16:48:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T20:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34385"},"modified":"2013-03-02T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T20:50:54","slug":"chow-just-a-saturday-geezer-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34385","title":{"rendered":"Chow&#8230; Just a Saturday (Geezer) Silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many here have traveled the world in uniform.\u00a0 This post is\/was prompted by an exchange on FB with a young sailor just back in CONUS after a stint in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>He opined that one of the things he liked about returning was the variety of food he found.\u00a0 It took some time for me to get the neurons firing. At first I was a food fuddy-duddy then I remembered \u00a0nuoc mam on anything and 33 beer, and Balut. Even after some reflection I am still a bit surprised that he couldn&#8217;t find variety in Europe, but that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve snacked from street venders in Olongapo and DaNang.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; what is the strangest thing you&#8217;ve eaten? C-RATS and\/or MRE&#8217;s don&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>Caveat: This may well not be the first time I&#8217;ve asked. If so&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many here have traveled the world in uniform.\u00a0 This post is\/was prompted by an exchange on FB with a young sailor just back in CONUS after a stint in Brussels. He opined that one of the things he liked about returning was the variety of food he found.\u00a0 It took some time for me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-8WB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}