{"id":1483,"date":"2012-05-18T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2015-03-26T08:05:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:05:02","slug":"a-fancy-roast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/a-fancy-roast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fancy Roast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00767.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1489\" title=\"Lechon\" src=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC00767-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>Since our arrival in March I&#8217;ve tried a few Filipino delicacies (some more desirable than others) and this week I was able to enjoy another one. \u00a0Lechon is probably one of the Philippines&#8217; most recognized dishes other than balut and is one of my personal favorites.\u00a0 A whole pig is roasted over charcoal, rotisserie style, until the skin becomes crispy.\u00a0 It is a little intimidating to see the whole pig sitting on your dining room table as you get ready to eat but the taste is phenomenal!\u00a0 Sometimes you can see pig farmers transfer a live pig in a sack on their motorcycle!\u00a0 Fresh delivery for the buyer!\u00a0 The church just recently had a fellowship meal and someone provided a beautiful lechon for us to enjoy!\u00a0 <strong>Others also brought their very best and that was a blessing to see too.\u00a0 The people here do not have much but they have been taught to give and have seen the Lord bless them for it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since our arrival in March I&#8217;ve tried a few Filipino delicacies (some more desirable than others) and this week I was able to enjoy another one. \u00a0Lechon is probably one of the Philippines&#8217; most recognized dishes other than balut and is one of my personal favorites.\u00a0 A whole pig is roasted over charcoal, rotisserie style, until the skin becomes crispy.\u00a0 &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/a-fancy-roast\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}