{"id":131,"date":"2011-04-08T23:23:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2014-07-26T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T00:37:15","slug":"shaken-but-not-stirred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Shaken but not stirred"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night at about 11:30, the seven of us staying at the CRASH Tono Base house were awakened (well, at least I was asleep – actually, one of the guys was in the shower!) by the strong aftershock that you are probably reading about in the news.\u00a0 We get several small aftershocks every day, but this one got those of us who were upstairs scrambling downstairs, and then the lights went out.\u00a0 Power was out in over 6 million homes across 6 prefectures (three of them in their entirety), and we figured it would out for a few days, so we conserved battery power in our computers and cell phones, and shivered with no heat.<\/p>\n

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One section of the rice-ball making - the pickles and fanning the balls to cool off the rice<\/p><\/div>\n

The only city-organized volunteer activity was the daily preparation of “onigiri” (rice balls, in this case with a pickled plum in the center) as part of the food plan for evacuation centers and a “soup kitchen” in a hard-hit town on the coast, so we all helped out.\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately there was enough light through the windows, and the rice cookers ran on propane.\u00a0 Starting with raw rice and ending with wrapped onigiri in boxes, the group of about 20 people made 1800 of them in 3 1\/2 hours!<\/p>\n

I don’t know about the rest of the region, but at least here in Tono, Iwate, power was restored at 6 p.m., and we lifted up a prayer of thanksgiving for the speedy recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night at about 11:30, the seven of us staying at the CRASH Tono Base house were awakened (well, at least I was asleep – actually, one of the guys was in the shower!) by the strong aftershock that you are probably reading about in the news.\u00a0 We get several small aftershocks every day, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs2525.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}