{"id":132,"date":"2011-04-09T22:13:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norikoburky.com\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2011-04-18T23:02:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T23:02:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/?page_id=132","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/norikoburky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Profilepic3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134\" title=\"Profilepic3\" src=\"http:\/\/norikoburky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Profilepic3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Profilepic3.jpg 350w, https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Profilepic3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWelcome to my blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was born and raised in Tsukuba, Japan, and moved to the states 10 years ago.\u00a0 I live with my wonderful husband who is also my best friend\/soul mate, my awesome son who has a great sense of humor, and our three four-legged friends (actually, one of them is three-legged, but you would never know it as active as he is).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I grew up on my mom&#8217;s home cooking and her taste is the foundation of my cooking.\u00a0 This is where I get my likes and dislikes for food.\u00a0 Along with her cooking, my food style is strongly influenced by my husband&#8217;s meatless diet.\u00a0 To be honest, I was not a big veggie-eater before meeting him.\u00a0 However, since then, I was introduced to many healthy and delicious alternatives to my meaty eating life.\u00a0 I can remember the surprise as though it was yesterday when I first really enjoyed the sweetness of each vegetable.\u00a0 I love all kinds of meat in various styles of cooking methods, but now they have become more of a treat which I enjoy a lot once in a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Another thing I love as much as cooking is sewing.\u00a0 I used to sell custom clothing on-line and have scaled down to accepting personal orders on occasion now.\u00a0 Just click on the &#8220;custom clothing&#8221; links on the top menu where I have showcased my past creations.\u00a0 Feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding my sewing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I look forward to getting in touch with many people through this blog and hope we can inspire each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/norikoburky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NorikoBSig3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-138\" title=\"NorikoBSig\" src=\"http:\/\/norikoburky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NorikoBSig3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my blog. I was born and raised in Tsukuba, Japan, and moved to the states 10 years ago.\u00a0 I live with my wonderful husband who is also my best friend\/soul mate, my awesome son who has a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/?page_id=132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norikoburky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}