{"id":338353,"date":"2021-02-12T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=338353"},"modified":"2021-02-12T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:05:09","slug":"sashimi-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sashimi-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Sashimi and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask of any food, \u201cWhat is your greatest wish?\u201d<br \/>\nI say, \u201cYellow-fin sashimi is my go-to dish.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen my belly aches for something delish,<br \/>\nI always look for that special tuna fish.<\/p>\n<p>They call tuna, \u201cChicken of the Sea\u201d understand?<br \/>\nSure, but no one calls chicken, \u201cTuna of the Land.\u201d\u2028True, golden brown thighs entice my appetite.<br \/>\nOn my plate, they are a most welcome sight.<\/p>\n<p>But what counts is how it comes to be my meal.<br \/>\nTo my way of thinking, we got to keep it real.<br \/>\nFrozen chicken parts taken out of an ice-box?<br \/>\nOr freshly caught fish straight from the docks?<\/p>\n<p>Squeeze luscious lime on fine firm red meat.<br \/>\nAdd soy sauce and you\u2019re almost complete.<br \/>\nDrop in little red hot peppers, hell yes!<br \/>\nSprinkle in green onions, be my guest.<\/p>\n<p>Watching this magical mix, I sit in ecstasy<br \/>\nStaring at the sashimi right in front of me<br \/>\nJust long enough for the chemicals to work.<br \/>\nThen I bite and my taste buds go berserk.<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\n<em>Bob Coldeen is a longtime TV journalist in the CNMI and is news director\/reporter of KSPN 2.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask of any food, \u201cWhat is your greatest wish?\u201d I say, \u201cYellow-fin sashimi is my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":322001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[208,26,1994,406],"class_list":["post-338353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-bob-coldeen","tag-cnmi","tag-kspn","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}