{"id":1038,"date":"2008-08-14T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T23:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/14\/scorpions-and-silkworms\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T23:09:27","slug":"scorpions-and-silkworms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/14\/scorpions-and-silkworms\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpions and silkworms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">From a Chinese-American classmate:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sorry to miss your Today show appearance. \u00c2\u00a0While you&#8217;re there and talking about Chinese food, can you get them to cover something other than scorpions and silkworms? \u00c2\u00a0I understand the appeal of exoticism and all, but it&#8217;s hardly representative of Chinese food&#8230; and a little tiresome after seeing four or five reporters make the same point using the same food items from the same night market!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Chinese-American classmate: &nbsp; Sorry to miss your Today show appearance. \u00c2\u00a0While you&#8217;re there and talking about Chinese food, can you get them to cover something other than scorpions and silkworms? \u00c2\u00a0I understand the appeal of exoticism and all, but it&#8217;s hardly representative of Chinese food&#8230; and a little tiresome after seeing four or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-gK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}