{"id":2386,"date":"2014-03-02T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2014-03-02T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T14:53:07","slug":"operation-mincemeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"Operation mincemeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not the one where you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2010\/05\/10\/100510crat_atlarge_gladwell?currentPage=all\">find a corpse and drop it off the coast of Spain<\/a>. This is the one where you find a container full of gemsbok intended for <a href=\"http:\/\/goafrica.about.com\/od\/foodanddrink\/a\/biltong.htm\">biltong<\/a> at the bottom of your freezer, and realise that half of it is a bit chunky and \/ or stringy, and that mincing it would be a better idea.<\/p>\n<p>Enter a handraulic meat grinder, originally acquired to mince perlemoen in the pre-poacher days when we still had perlemoen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140301_192144s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2387\" title=\"20140301_192144s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140301_192144s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to end up with a right arm like a teenage boy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not the one where you find a corpse and drop it off the coast of Spain. This is the one where you find a container full of gemsbok intended for biltong at the bottom of your freezer, and realise that half of it is a bit chunky and \/ or stringy, and that mincing it would be a better idea. Enter a handraulic meat grinder, originally acquired to mince perlemoen in the pre-poacher days when we still had perlemoen. I&#8217;m going to end up with a right arm like a teenage boy. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}