{"id":518,"date":"2008-02-07T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T21:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2008\/02\/07\/so-its-chinese-new-yearyear-of-the-rat\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:24:09","slug":"so-its-chinese-new-yearyear-of-the-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/so-its-chinese-new-yearyear-of-the-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"So it&#8217;s Chinese New Year&#8230;Year of the Rat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A snippet from an IM conversation early today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"ej8B8e\"><strong>Shawn<\/strong>: <\/span><span id=\"1fbn\">happy new year!<\/span> do you celebrate it with family\/friends?<br \/>\n<strong>M<\/strong><span class=\"ej8B8e\"><strong>e<\/strong>: <\/span><span id=\"1fbl\">not in the slightest<\/span>. i&#8217;m more likely to go to seder for passover than celebrate chinese new year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"1fbg\" class=\"h8iICe\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Q2bXSc\">(Hey, the Jewish-Chinese connection in New York goes both directions).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Q2bXSc\"><!--more--> No, seriously, Chinese New Year is a big deal when I was in China, because the entire country&#8217;s schedule orbits around it &#8212; like Xmas-New Years in the United States and Ramadan in the Middle East. Everything shuts down. This is why actually China&#8217;s worst snowstorms in 50 years couldn&#8217;t have come at worse time. But in New York, <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9B00E6DF163DF93BA35757C0A96E958260\">it was just an accomplishment to get alternate parking suspended<\/a> on Lunar New Year.  Some families pick up both sets of traditions when they immigrate between countries. Others lose both. I&#8217;ve often thought about &#8220;rediscovering&#8221; Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A snippet from an IM conversation early today. Shawn: happy new year! do you celebrate it with family\/friends? Me: not in the slightest. i&#8217;m more likely to go to seder for passover than celebrate chinese new year. &nbsp; (Hey, the Jewish-Chinese connection in New York goes both directions).<\/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-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-8m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}