{"id":477,"date":"2014-05-18T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T07:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2014-05-18T07:41:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T07:41:32","slug":"day-13-fruitvegetable-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Day 13 &#8211; Fruit\/Vegetable carving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First things first.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorry about quality of the photos and the video.\u00a0 I used the Olympus point and shoot instead of the Hasselblad rather than fully exposing myself to ridicule through poor artistic ability.<\/p>\n<p>Due to my really poor showing here I have been avoiding putting something up.\u00a0 To pass your&#8217; &#8216;real&#8217; chef&#8217;s course in Thailand you have to do a fruit\/vegetable carving exam that\u00a0 takes 4 hours to complete and you end up with a stack of carved fruit and vegetables that would make up the pride of place in a hotel buffet that all the tourists (including me in the past) would duly ignore.\u00a0 No longer will I ignore this, this carving is such an art and takes so long (around 1 hour for a water melon) that I will stand in wonder and appreciation of the artist&#8217;s work before pigging out on all the standard wishy washy food of the hotel buffet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First things first.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorry about quality of the photos and the video.\u00a0 I used the Olympus point and shoot instead of the Hasselblad rather than fully exposing myself to ridicule through poor artistic ability. Due to my really poor showing here I have been avoiding putting something up.\u00a0 To pass your&#8217; &#8216;real&#8217; chef&#8217;s course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.trainingelite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}