{"id":1168,"date":"2008-09-18T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2008-09-18T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T16:44:27","slug":"general-tso-goes-on-a-shopping-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/general-tso-goes-on-a-shopping-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"General Tso goes on a shopping spree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A style article on shopping in boutiques in Chinatown uses General Tso in the headline, even though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/18\/fashion\/18CHINATOWN.html\">he has nothing to do with the story.<\/a> It&#8217;s interesting how General Tso has become a shorthand for &#8220;an abstract Chinese figure  that Americans can relate to, &#8221; as opposed to let&#8217;s say Mao Zedong or Confucius. Can you imagine &#8220;Confucius goes on a shopping spree?&#8221; Or &#8220;Mao goes on a shopping spree?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A style article on shopping in boutiques in Chinatown uses General Tso in the headline, even though he has nothing to do with the story. It&#8217;s interesting how General Tso has become a shorthand for &#8220;an abstract Chinese figure that Americans can relate to, &#8221; as opposed to let&#8217;s say Mao Zedong or Confucius. Can [&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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tso"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-iQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","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=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}