{"id":3402,"date":"2012-01-18T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2012-01-18T17:13:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:13:01","slug":"chinese-takeout-boxes-are-all-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/chinese-takeout-boxes-are-all-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Takeout Boxes are All-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/01\/15\/magazine\/15wmt1_span\/15wmt1_span-articleLarge-v2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/01\/15\/magazine\/15wmt1_span\/15wmt1_span-articleLarge-v2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>The New York Times Magazine has a piece by\u00c2\u00a0<span>Hilary Greenbaum and Dana Rubenstein <\/span>on how Chinese takeout boxes are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/15\/magazine\/the-chinese-takeout-container-is-uniquely-american.html?_r=1\">uniquely American<\/a> (Chinese takeout boxes are all but unknown in China)\u00c2\u00a0My favorite fact that they dug up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>On Nov. 13, 1894, in Chicago, the inventor Frederick Weeks Wilcox patented a version of what he called a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153paper pail,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which was a single piece of paper, creased into segments and folded into a (more or less) leakproof container secured with a dainty wire handle on top.<\/span><span> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Impressed that they dug that up. In my research, I did not stumble across that fun, fun fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Magazine has a piece by\u00c2\u00a0Hilary Greenbaum and Dana Rubenstein on how Chinese takeout boxes are uniquely American (Chinese takeout boxes are all but unknown in China)\u00c2\u00a0My favorite fact that they dug up: On Nov. 13, 1894, in Chicago, the inventor Frederick Weeks Wilcox patented a version of what he called a [&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-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-SS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402","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=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}