{"id":70,"date":"2008-06-03T22:01:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T04:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.info\/wordpress\/?p=70"},"modified":"2008-06-03T22:01:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T04:01:30","slug":"episodes-of-the-week-how-many-sakais-does-it-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Episodes of the Week &#8211; How many Sakais does it take. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through the list of episodes available to be added to the Iron Chef Collection Video Database for this week when I noticed something rather unusual. Iron Chef Italian Masahiko Kobe only fought 23 battles in Kitchen Stadium. However, he faced challengers with the name Sakai 3 times in a span of 11 battles. (To the best of my knowledge, none of the challengers named Sakai were related to Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai.) This week&#8217;s Episodes of the Week theme is &#8220;How many Sakais does it take to beat a Kobe?&#8221; You&#8217;ll have to watch to find out if any of these three challengers has what it takes to defeat an Iron Chef.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_blue_crab\" target=\"_blank\">Crab (Watarigani)<\/a> (627) &#8211; Iron Chef Kobe vs. Miyoko Sakai<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pumpkin\" target=\"_blank\">Pumpkin<\/a> (639) &#8211; Iron Chef Kobe vs. Kensuke Sakai<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anago\" target=\"_blank\">Conger Eel<\/a> (730) &#8211; Iron Chef Kobe vs. Hiroki Sakai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Sorry to disappoint all you Hiroyuki Sakai fans who expected to see Iron Chef French featured this week. I&#8217;ll do my best to make sure he is well represented next week.)<\/p>\n<p>You may find the following episodes by searching our video database: <a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=177\" target=\"_blank\">627<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=178\" target=\"_blank\">639<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=179\">730<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New in the database this week: 627, 639, 730<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking through the list of episodes available to be added to the Iron Chef Collection Video Database for this week when I noticed something rather unusual. Iron Chef Italian Masahiko Kobe only fought 23 battles in Kitchen Stadium. However, he faced challengers with the name Sakai 3 times in a span of 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[51,29,16,12,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}