{"id":513,"date":"2008-02-06T11:46:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T16:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2008\/02\/06\/a-welcome-letter-to-the-baghdad-chinese-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T18:19:06","slug":"a-welcome-letter-to-the-baghdad-chinese-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/a-welcome-letter-to-the-baghdad-chinese-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"A welcome letter to the Baghdad Chinese Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine who works in the Baghdad bureau ofThe Los Angeles Times sent me a welcome letter that his translator wrote to the owner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/index.php?tag=baghdad\">new Chinese restaurant in Baghdad<\/a> (which was informed, in part, by reading this blog).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Sir,<\/p>\n<p>I was yesterday following up some stories on the web about your restaurant, and let me relay to you how I was inspired and touched by having you and your fellow colleagues here in my country among all this chaos.<\/p>\n<p>As soon I read the stories about you and your restaurant yesterday night,  a big smile drawn on my face and I couldn&#8217;t feel but hope which I thought I lost it since 5 years ago. All of you leaving your families behind, and coming here is nothing but spirit lifting and deserves the greatest respect and admiration. In fact I couldn&#8217;t sleep yesterday, no matter how I tried, thinking about and admire all of you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also allow me to welcome you to my country, don&#8217;t mind what you see around you, we are a very friendly and warm hearted people. Allow me to welcome you as a guest, on behalf of my fellow Iraqis, in Iraq. You will notice soon, if not already, that you will be overwhelmed with famous hospitality that Iraqis are known for.<\/p>\n<p>I am here at your restaurant  for another different reason, I came to taste the delicious Chinese food I hear about all the time. I am certain I&#8217;ll be a regular customer of yours!<\/p>\n<p>I wish you a prosperous business and to enjoy yours stay here, and I want you to remember whenever I will feel down or face hardships\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that I will remember the example that all of you had set.<\/p>\n<p>Yours Truly,<br \/>\nSaif<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, they don&#8217;t read English. So he needed it translated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine who works in the Baghdad bureau ofThe Los Angeles Times sent me a welcome letter that his translator wrote to the owner of the new Chinese restaurant in Baghdad (which was informed, in part, by reading this blog). Dear Sir, I was yesterday following up some stories on the web about [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-restaurants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-8h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}