{"id":3548,"date":"2016-02-03T19:19:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T00:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2016-02-24T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:22:28","slug":"harley-spillers-giant-chinese-menu-collection-going-to-university-of-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/03\/harley-spillers-giant-chinese-menu-collection-going-to-university-of-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Harley Spiller&#8217;s Giant Chinese Menu Collection Going to University of Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2016\/02\/02\/u-of-t-acquires-the-worlds-largest-collection-of-chinese-restaurant-menus.html\">Big news<\/a>\u00a0in menu world. Harley Spiller&#8217;s immense Chinese menu collection (and an indirect inspiration for my book) is going to the University of Toronto. He sold it for $40,000, which may sound like a lot. But actually isn&#8217;t if you consider there are 10,000 items in it.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it might go to the NYPL. But alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news\u00a0in menu world. Harley Spiller&#8217;s immense Chinese menu collection (and an indirect inspiration for my book) is going to the University of Toronto. He sold it for $40,000, which may sound like a lot. But actually isn&#8217;t if you consider there are 10,000 items in it. I thought it might go to the NYPL. [&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-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-Ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","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=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}