{"id":724,"date":"2008-03-31T12:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T17:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/fortune-cookies-are-not-a-food-according-to-our-federal-government\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T12:48:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T17:48:36","slug":"fortune-cookies-are-not-a-food-according-to-our-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/fortune-cookies-are-not-a-food-according-to-our-federal-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune cookies are not a &#8220;food&#8217; (according to our federal government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/thesefortunecookiesarenotfood.JPG\" title=\"Fortune Cookies promotional from Nixon Library\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/thesefortunecookiesarenotfood.JPG\" alt=\"Fortune Cookies promotional from Nixon Library\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\nFortune cookies are not necessarily food, at least, according to the federal government<\/p>\n<p>The Nixon Library made these adorable custom-made fortune cookies to promote my talk on Saturday (above). But the library is part of the National Archives which is part of the federal government which is not allowed to give out \u00e2\u20ac\u0153food\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as presents (all kinds of regulations out of Washington).<\/p>\n<p>So the library went up to the General Counsel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office and got a special ruling that fortune cookies were not food, but rather a novelty gift.<\/p>\n<p>Which is not unfair, after all, hardly anyone eats the cookies themselves anyway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune cookies are not necessarily food, at least, according to the federal government The Nixon Library made these adorable custom-made fortune cookies to promote my talk on Saturday (above). But the library is part of the National Archives which is part of the federal government which is not allowed to give out \u00e2\u20ac\u0153food\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as presents [&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":[5,11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings","category-fortune-cookies","category-quirky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-bG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}