{"id":664,"date":"2008-03-17T22:19:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T03:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/politics-and-prose-kosher-chinese-food-and-standing-room-only\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T23:34:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T04:34:28","slug":"politics-and-prose-kosher-chinese-food-and-standing-room-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/politics-and-prose-kosher-chinese-food-and-standing-room-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and Prose, Kosher Chinese Food and Standing Room Only"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one half of the audience at my Politics & Prose event at Sixth and I Synagogue which is in Chinatown. (It was like the perfect convergence of my book: literary, Jews, Chinatown).<\/p>\n

\"Politics<\/a><\/p>\n

The other half of the audience is at the right, past the laptop. It was about 150+ people, standing room only. They served (and ran out of) kosher Chinese food from Royal Dragon.<\/p>\n

My presentation went pretty well tonight, to the point that someone suggested that I go on the Jewish comedy circuit (my humor, growing up in NYC, is a bit Seinfeld influenced). I realized that Americans aren’t really used to funny Asian-American women. American humor comes in Jewish and black, and a bit of Latino<\/a> now, and that Canadian Indian guy with the western name<\/a>. As for Asian American women, it’s basically like Margaret Cho…and that’s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one half of the audience at my Politics & Prose event at Sixth and I Synagogue which is in Chinatown. (It was like the perfect convergence of my book: literary, Jews, Chinatown). The other half of the audience is at the right, past the laptop. It was about 150+ people, standing room only. […]<\/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":[57,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-aI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","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=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}