{"id":308,"date":"2008-07-02T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2008\/07\/02\/my-crazy-chinese-inlaws\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T10:18:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T15:18:14","slug":"my-crazy-chinese-inlaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2008\/07\/02\/my-crazy-chinese-inlaws\/","title":{"rendered":"My crazy Chinese inlaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My inlaws have been staying with us for quite a long time now, helping us while we take care of our new baby.  They&#8217;re really great, and I&#8217;m glad to have them here.  But sometimes they do things that are just so bizarre to me.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThey&#8217;re old, and they lived through some hard times in China, as did everyone that wasn&#8217;t a high-ranking Party member.  Very lean times.  I guess that explains it.  But their thriftiness is just so excessive, I have to laugh at them sometimes.  Some of the crazy things they&#8217;ve done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They won&#8217;t let you throw out a teabag after you use it.  She&#8217;ll intercept it on the way to the garbage, and try to make another cup of tea with it.  Guaranteed to be some really piss-poor tea.<\/li>\n<li>When I shut down my charcoal BBQ, she&#8217;ll rush out and throw a couple potatoes in there to bake them with the left-over heat.  No sense wasting it.  Though I suspect the half-baked potatoes would probably be awful.<\/li>\n<li>After they boil some noodles, they save the pot of noodle water.  Apparently it&#8217;s good for cleaning other pots.<\/li>\n<li>This morning I caught her washing the string from one of those banana-leaf-wrapped sticky-rice cakes.  Presumably she intends to save and reuse the 2ft piece of string.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are probably more that I&#8217;m just not remembering right now.<\/p>\n<h4>Update, Oct. 4, 2008<\/h4>\n<p>Ok, I owe Mom-in-law an apology.  Yesterday we tried her idea of throwing a sweet potato into the Egg after I shut it down.  Left it in there while the Egg was cooling overnight.  In the morning, we found a pretty nicely baked sweet potato.  Ok, so that idea actually works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My inlaws have been staying with us for quite a long time now, helping us while we take care of our new baby. They&#8217;re really great, and I&#8217;m glad to have them here. But sometimes they do things that are just so bizarre to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}