{"id":327,"date":"2007-12-12T13:20:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T18:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/12\/12\/there-aint-much-else-to-do-on-christmas-except-eat-chinese-food-if-youre-a-jew\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T09:38:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T14:38:43","slug":"there-aint-much-else-to-do-on-christmas-except-eat-chinese-food-if-youre-a-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/there-aint-much-else-to-do-on-christmas-except-eat-chinese-food-if-youre-a-jew\/","title":{"rendered":"There ain&#8217;t much else to do on Christmas except eat Chinese food if you&#8217;re a Jew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonwalkermusic.com\">Brandon Harris Walker<\/a>&#8216;s hilarious music video, Chinese Food on Christmas, has already gotten over half a million views.<\/p>\n<p>The chorus (as much as I was able to transcribe it):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> We eat Chinese food on Christmas.<br \/>\nGo to the movie theater too.<br \/>\nBecause there is not much else to do on Christmas,<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a Jew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w1uZ_W7atDE&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center> I was actually just interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/\">The Forward<\/a> (once only in Yiddish!) about Why Chow Mein is the Chosen Food of the Chosen People, one of the chapters of my book. A <a href=\"http:\/\/soc.qc.cuny.edu\/Staff\/levine\/SAFE-TREYF.pdf\">paper called Safe Treyf<\/a>, by Gaye Tuchman and Harry G. Levine, discusses the intimate relationship between Jews and Chinese food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Harris Walker&#8216;s hilarious music video, Chinese Food on Christmas, has already gotten over half a million views. The chorus (as much as I was able to transcribe it): We eat Chinese food on Christmas. Go to the movie theater too. Because there is not much else to do on Christmas, If you&#8217;re a Jew. [&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":[38,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-5h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}