{"id":2859,"date":"2010-01-06T23:02:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T04:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2010-01-06T23:02:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T04:02:39","slug":"the-obsession-with-general-tso-and-his-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/the-obsession-with-general-tso-and-his-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obsession with General Tso and his Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Lam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/food\/francis_lam\/2010\/01\/05\/history_of_general_tsos_chicken\/index.html?source=newsletter\">expounds on General Tso&#8217;s chicken on Salon.com<\/a>, the poultry story that keeps on giving. He quotes &#8220;The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.&#8221; Fuchsia Dunlop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuchsiadunlop.com\/general-tsos-chicken-again\/\">also weighs in<\/a> on how it got known as General Tso&#8217;s chicken when the original English name was &#8220;Chicken a la Viceroy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I feel there is a cabal of General Tso&#8217;s chicken-obsessed people that emerges.<\/p>\n<p>Generaltso on Facebook is a kid named Devon Morton who just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeneralTso\">graduated from high school on Long Island.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Tso on Twitter is a mystery &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GeneralTso\">someone who protects his tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/generaltsoschicken.com\/\">Generaltsoschicken.com <\/a>belongs to a squatter.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/generaltso.com\">Generaltso.com<\/a> points to a random law firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Lam expounds on General Tso&#8217;s chicken on Salon.com, the poultry story that keeps on giving. He quotes &#8220;The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.&#8221; Fuchsia Dunlop also weighs in on how it got known as General Tso&#8217;s chicken when the original English name was &#8220;Chicken a la Viceroy.&#8221; I feel there is a cabal of General Tso&#8217;s [&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-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tso"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-K7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","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=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}