{"id":595,"date":"2005-05-02T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/05\/02\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T00:33:29","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T04:33:29","slug":"imaginary-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/05\/02\/imaginary-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the more interesting secondary results of reading books beyond your age and experience is exposure to the names of foods and places you&#8217;ve never heard of, such references being given without explanation or thought, on the assumption that all readers will know what&#8217;s being talked about.  For a child (especially before the internet), a reference not recognized requires the application of imagination to fill in the gap.  This can lead to some interesting misconceptions.  For years (and truth be told, even now this is my first mental image) I imagined Turkish Delight to be, not the gummy sort of confection it is, but squares of beef in a lovely sugary pink sauce.  (Even as a child I preferred savory dishes to desserts &#8212; I simply could not imagine someone consuming a whole box of candy and still wanting more. BEEF on the other hand!)<\/p>\n<p>When we went to England in February, I brought back a box of Turkish Delight, part of which I consumed last week when the arrival of the Narnia trailer sent me scurrying to read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.  But the real thing isn&#8217;t as tasty as the imagined version, making Edmund&#8217;s craving for it all the more difficult to believe.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more interesting secondary results of reading books beyond your age and experience is exposure to the names of foods and places you&#8217;ve never heard of, such references being given without explanation or thought, on the assumption that all readers will know what&#8217;s being talked about. For a child (especially before the internet), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}