{"id":162,"date":"2005-04-19T03:07:56","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=162"},"modified":"2005-04-19T03:07:56","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T03:07:56","slug":"recapturing-ramen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/04\/19\/recapturing-ramen\/","title":{"rendered":"Recapturing Ramen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since returning from vacation, I&#8217;ve been consumed by the desire to recapture the ramen experience which made the trip to Hawaii so memorable. A visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.citysearch.com\/profile\/4749149\/cambridge_ma\/sapporo_ramen.html?\">Sapporo Ramen<\/a> at Porter Exchange yesterday, however, was less than satisfactory. Though the noodles were fresh and springy, they were drenched in a bland, uninspired soup base with an uninviting herbal odor. With Boston being so deprived of Japanese noodle shops, I&#8217;m beginning to fear that our options are dwindling. I also got a chance to pull my tennis racquet out of hibernation for the warm spring weather. But after an embarrassing hour of play, I feel like I&#8217;ll be needing a LOT of practice. By the way, for those of you who wanna see more pics from Hawaii, check out the <a href=\"p_travel.php\">travel page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since returning from vacation, I&#8217;ve been consumed by the desire to recapture the ramen experience which made the trip to Hawaii so memorable. A visit to Sapporo Ramen at Porter Exchange yesterday, however, was less than satisfactory. Though the noodles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/04\/19\/recapturing-ramen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}