{"id":367746,"date":"2026-03-10T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=367746"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:36:10","slug":"standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=367746","title":{"rendered":"Standards."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/crying-in-hmart.jpg\" alt=\"cryinng in h mart\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Literally me last weekend in the produce department.<\/p>\n<p>My sister&#8217;s gonna turn into a sweet potato &#8211; She eats them every day and has tried the whole gamut &#8211; American, Japanese, Korean&#8230; I didn&#8217;t even know there were so many different kinds.<\/p>\n<p>She has decided that Korean sweet potatoes are far superior to the other varieties, so there we were at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/gXEeADeSsF6FssRGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H Mart<\/a> on a Sunday afternoon. They sell them raw &#8211; She slow-roasts them at home, then refrigerates them and eats them cold &#8211; she says they taste sweeter that way. She eats them for dessert &#8211; I had 2 scoops of ice cream after dinner tonight (leftover from the 4-scoop sampler I doordashed last night) &#8211; Our versions of &#8216;dessert&#8217; differ a bit. They also sell them hot and roasted in paper bags, which she also bought. When we were in Japan, I noticed they sold them like this everywhere we went. I was like, &#8216;Who even eats roasted sweet potatoes?&#8217; Apparently, my sister does, you guys.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, while we were in the produce department, this song was playing over the speakers. I was like, &#8216;Why do I know every lyric to this song? Also, why am I crying?&#8217; \ud83d\ude05 They were playing the original version of the song &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=50VWOBi0VFs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Jealous<\/em> by Labrinth<\/a> &#8211; but the version I know and love is an a cappella cover by the <a href=\"https:\/\/vanderbiltmelodores.squarespace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melodores<\/a> out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanderbilt University<\/a> in Nashville that I came across on Spotify bc they also did a beautiful rendition of my favorite Yebba song, <em>Evergreen<\/em>. They were led, oddly enough, by a Korean singer. Koreans just be knowing what they&#8217;re doing, huh? \ud83d\ude06 Back in the day when my friend was on Tinder, she swiped right on this guy whose bio said, &#8216;If you like Koreans, raise your glass. If you don&#8217;t like Koreans, raise your standards.&#8217; \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RwnL05pk2YU?si=-Z54md3aGB8-PdCR\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to say, I&#8217;m jealous of the way<br>You&#8217;re happy without me<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YP_ON-f3LUA?si=y2RCDrUd1cev9qQe\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"verse tc_translate\">Oh I can&#8217;t see<br>The forest for the trees<\/div>\n<div class=\"verse tc_translate\">So, will you wait for me?<br>Will you wait for me?<br>Will you wait for me?<br>My evergreen<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dpOo3gPANnw?si=0xwSSh-GApR7gV2-\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The author of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crying_in_H_Mart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Crying in H Mart<\/em><\/a> is also the lead singer of indie pop band Japanese Breakfast. Is there anything Koreans can&#8217;t do???<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally me last weekend in the produce department. My sister&#8217;s gonna turn into a sweet potato &#8211; She eats them every day and has tried the whole gamut &#8211; American, Japanese, Korean&#8230; I didn&#8217;t even know there were so many different kinds. She has decided that Korean sweet potatoes are far superior to the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367746"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367776,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367746\/revisions\/367776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}