{"id":521,"date":"2021-11-12T01:29:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/?p=521"},"modified":"2021-11-12T01:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:29:20","slug":"konpeito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/konpeito\/","title":{"rendered":"Konpeit\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Konpeit\u014d is a Japanese candy that was introduced in Japan during the early 16th century by Portuguese traders. Konpeit\u014d comes from the Portuguese word <em>confeito<\/em> that means sugar candy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This candy is made from sugar, which was very expensive in Japan in the 16th century. It is 5 to 10 mm. in diameter and produced by repeatedly coating a sugar syrup over a core consisting of a grain of coarse sugar. Originally the core was a seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Konpeit\u014d is a standard candy in Japan. The character Sugar Plum Fairy in &#8220;The Nutcracker&#8221; was translated into <em>konpeit\u014d no sei\u00a0<\/em>(Fairy of konpeit\u014d) and can be seen in the movie &#8220;Spirited Away&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gratitude Crystals in &#8220;The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword&#8221; are also based off of konpeit\u014d candies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soot gremlins catching konpeit\u014d in the movie, &#8220;Spirited Away&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Susuwatari\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-MEtQ4OvH-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konpeit\u014d is a Japanese candy that was introduced in Japan during the early 16th century by Portuguese traders. Konpeit\u014d comes from the Portuguese word confeito that means sugar candy. This candy is made from sugar, which was very expensive in Japan in the 16th century. It is 5 to 10 mm. in diameter and produced&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/konpeito\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}