{"id":12342,"date":"2008-11-19T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/malacca.html"},"modified":"2008-11-19T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T08:30:09","slug":"malacca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/11\/19\/malacca.html","title":{"rendered":"Malacca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">A&nbsp;cane made from the stem of a rattan palm.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I first encountered the word &quot;cane&quot; on a dirt road in Vientiane, Laos. Within walking distance of my family&#8217;s house stood a hut where Laotian farmers sold sugarcane. <\/p>\n<p>Sugarcane was introduced to me as a marvelous earthly delight, distinctly but not uniquely Laotian, the name derived from its resemblance to a walking cane. <\/p>\n<p>We ate sugarcane raw, discarding the mangled husks into angry looking piles. The cane was rich and viscous, its hard center a known hazard as we gnawed at the stalk. The sugary juices would get all over faces, and we would laugh.<\/p>\n<p>When we moved back to Florida I remember looking for sugarcane at the numerous roadside fruitstands. I can&#8217;t remember why but I seem to remember being told that Florida sugarcane was either not edible, or simply inferior to Laotian sugarcane. I do not remember ever consuming Florida sugarcane.&nbsp; Accurately or not I tend to think of Florida sugarcane as something harvested for industrial processing and not direct consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;cane made from the stem of a rattan palm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-malacca","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}