{"id":3255,"date":"2011-01-09T19:03:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T00:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/tracking-chinese-restaurants-chop-suey-and-fortune-cookies-over-the-last-two-centuries-via-google-books\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T14:50:00","slug":"tracking-chinese-restaurants-chop-suey-and-fortune-cookies-over-the-last-two-centuries-via-google-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/tracking-chinese-restaurants-chop-suey-and-fortune-cookies-over-the-last-two-centuries-via-google-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Chinese restaurants, chop suey and fortune cookies over the last two centuries via Google books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/sirJjRiFE2eA44unjo8uYtGUZthMIryKVOIbdcEE6w1yPcNELP2Py4UeuK2d\/chinese_restaurants_fortune_co.png'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/xwZRBsewyGl0LM162NGQbmnKWnjSKN2A0ANCjX8mdnVqWrqWrDw9Eq4CEV83\/chinese_restaurants_fortune_co.png.scaled.500.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ngrams.googlelabs.com\/graph?content=Chinese+restaurants,+chop+suey,fortune+cookies&amp;year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2000&amp;corpus=0&amp;smoothing=3\">This ngram<\/a> is a broad metric of the concepts in Google books, and the dates generally track with my research: &quot;chop suey&quot; jumping around 1896, &quot;fortune cookies&quot; surging after World War II, and &quot;Chinese restaurants&quot; making an appearance in 1860, around the beginnings of the first waves of Chinese immigration. \u00c2\u00a0&quot; Notice how &quot;Chinese restaurants&quot; continue to \u00c2\u00a0go up even as &quot;chop suey&quot; falls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ngram is a broad metric of the concepts in Google books, and the dates generally track with my research: &quot;chop suey&quot; jumping around 1896, &quot;fortune cookies&quot; surging after World War II, and &quot;Chinese restaurants&quot; making an appearance in 1860, around the beginnings of the first waves of Chinese immigration. \u00c2\u00a0&quot; Notice how &quot;Chinese restaurants&quot; [&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-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-Qv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","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=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}