{"id":2231,"date":"2009-02-12T20:04:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T01:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2009-02-12T21:19:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T02:19:03","slug":"speaking-in-salem-where-the-taxi-logo-is-a-witch-on-a-broomstick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/speaking-in-salem-where-the-taxi-logo-is-a-witch-on-a-broomstick\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking in Salem (Where the Taxi Logo is a Witch on a Broomstick!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gave a talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pem.org\/homepage\/index.php\">Peabody Essex Museum<\/a> in Salem, Massachusetts today, which has an amazing collection of Chinese art &#8212; in large part because Salem was a shipping capital with China. It also has a Qing Dynasty Chinese house, <a href=\"http:\/\/pem.org\/yinyutang\/\">Yin Yu Tang<\/a>, which is famously and painstakingly disassembled and reassembled in the museum.<\/p>\n<p>But of course Salem is famous for its witch fame, which it embraces with good humor. The taxi that took me to the airport arrived and I was amused to discover that its logo was a witch on a broomstick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/salemwitch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2230 aligncenter\" title=\"Salem Witch on Broomstick Taxi Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/salemwitch.jpg\" alt=\"The Salem, Massachusetts Taxi Logo!\" width=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/salemwitch.jpg 1709w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/salemwitch-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1709px) 100vw, 1709px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gave a talk at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts today, which has an amazing collection of Chinese art &#8212; in large part because Salem was a shipping capital with China. It also has a Qing Dynasty Chinese house, Yin Yu Tang, which is famously and painstakingly disassembled and reassembled in the museum. But [&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":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-zZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}