{"id":2310,"date":"2017-12-02T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2017-12-02T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T14:32:33","slug":"roll-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/02\/roll-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"roll with it"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always been a picky eater, but I\u2019ve been try of late to be better about that. Onions are still off the table, but when the occasional pepper makes it into the mix I\u2019ll usually just sigh and go with it. I call it, \u201cI\u2019m growing as a person,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Last night was a sushi party hosted by a couple of my friends. \u00a0It\u2019s an annual event and they have all the fixins for a variety of sushi rolls. \u00a0In the past, I would make my own rolls because it\u2019s fun (though I\u2019m terrible at it) and to moderate what goes in the roll. \u00a0Avocado? Cucumber? \u00a0Eel sauce? \u00a0Is that made by<\/em> eels or make of<\/em> eels? \u00a0Do they squeeze the sauce out of them or is this a \u201cthrow them in the blender\u201d process? \u00a0And I\u2019d normally say \u201cno thank you\u201d to all three of those ingredients.<\/span><\/p>\n

This time, though, I decided that I was going to try everything. \u00a0Whatever someone shared, I was on board. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I ate a lot of sushi. \u00a0I mean, a lot. \u00a0And it was all amazing. Flavors I hadn\u2019t expected, textures that surprised, sauces that complimented. \u00a0I have no idea what was in most of the rolls and didn\u2019t care. \u00a0It was a culinary adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n

I finished up with a strange looking – but tasty – roll and the requisite \u201cfar too much\u201d wasabi.\u00a0 \u00a0If you ain’t crying, you didn’t have enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then I sat back – uncomfortably full, but happy – and enjoyed the variety of the conversations around me. This group of friends that were gathered were some of the smartest and most interesting people I know. \u00a0We talked politics, travel, education, several of the sciences, culture, music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was pretty amazing and my normal \u201cugh, people\u201d didn\u2019t manifest – the party didn\u2019t close down until almost midnight and I stayed for the duration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Makes me want to try harder to \u201cengage\u201d. \u00a0I\u2019m perfectly happy on my own with a good book and a video game, but last night reaffirmed that there are some amazing people out there and I need to get out there more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Great friends, great conversation, and amazing sushi. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And before you go, \u201cYuck, sushi is so\u2026\u201d you need to shut up and get used to being wrong. \u00a0Because you\u2019re wrong and it\u2019s awesome. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Onions, however, are still terrible.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always been a picky eater, but I\u2019ve been try of late to be better about that. Onions are still off the table, but when the occasional pepper makes it into the mix I\u2019ll usually just sigh and go with it. I call it, \u201cI\u2019m growing as a person,\u201d Last night was a sushi party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}