{"id":18,"date":"2011-02-15T21:43:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T07:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/"},"modified":"2016-05-29T08:55:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T18:55:32","slug":"the-tasty-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/hawaii-food-blog\/the-tasty-island\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tasty Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastyislandhawaii.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border: 2px solid #000;\" title=\"The Tasty Island\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the-tasty-island-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"The Tasty Island\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Pomai has been blogging about food since June 2006, when he launched <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastyislandhawaii.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Tasty Island<\/a><\/strong> after a particularly passionate conversation about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiithreads.com\/showthread.php?t=8715\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii&#8217;s best hot dog<\/a><\/strong> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiithreads.com\" target=\"_blank\">HawaiiThreads<\/a><\/strong>. The first entry, originally posted to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tastyisland.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">a WordPress blog<\/a><\/strong>, tackled the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tastyislandhawaii.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/andagi-hot-dog-andadog\/\" target=\"_blank\">andadog<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; in which hot dogs and andagi collide. The rest is history. Pomai rates restaurants and dishes using a &#8220;Spam musubi rating system,&#8221; assigning each a &#8220;Musubi Grade&#8221; from one (average) to five (&#8220;Broke Da&#8217; Mout&#8221;). He moved to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastyislandhawaii.com\" target=\"_blank\">his own site<\/a><\/strong> in October 2009. You can follow Pomai on Twitter at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tastyisland808\" target=\"_blank\">@tastyisland808<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest Posts<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pomai has been blogging about food since June 2006, when he launched The Tasty Island after a particularly passionate conversation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1mnly-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaiigrinds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}