{"id":983,"date":"2024-05-09T01:45:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=983"},"modified":"2024-08-04T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T17:00:50","slug":"why-there-are-instructions-for-extending-the-life-of-the-rice-cooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2024\/05\/why-there-are-instructions-for-extending-the-life-of-the-rice-cooker\/","title":{"rendered":"Why there are instructions for extending the life of the rice cooker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each day\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

one<\/span><\/p>\n

by\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

one<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they inspect the grains.<\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 three<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 women<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 carefully\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

separate bad \/ from \/ good.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rice forms\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the meal\u2019s foundation<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They work rapidly, but with the precise rhythms of a thousand days: sorting, washing, cooking.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Poured from the old appliance,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the rice gleams<\/span><\/p>\n

in a large blue bowl.<\/span><\/p>\n

The women spread<\/span><\/p>\n

other dishes on our table.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beans, vegetables, pumpkin stew, chicken, pi\u00f1a, malanga.<\/span><\/p>\n

But no bananas. The rains have washed out \/ a bridge \/<\/span><\/p>\n

into the city,<\/span><\/p>\n

and there are shortages now.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Less to distinguish\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

bad\/from\/good.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

While we eat,<\/span><\/p>\n

they clean the kitchen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Government vehicles<\/span><\/p>\n

drive through the neighborhood,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

by the embassies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To impress foreign dignitaries,<\/span><\/p>\n

it has been commanded that the fronts<\/span><\/p>\n

of houses be painted like pastel sunsets and tropical fruits.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The back sides\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

will be<\/span><\/p>\n

left<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

peeling\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

a rotting fruta bomba<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw abandoned yesterday\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

on the sidewalk. Two roosters<\/span><\/p>\n

pecked at it, not distinguishing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

badfromgood.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each day\u00a0one by\u00a0one they inspect the grains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}