{"id":740,"date":"2008-03-31T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/nixons-chopsticks\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T20:40:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:40:28","slug":"nixons-chopsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/nixons-chopsticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nixon&#8217;s Chopsticks, and Peking Duck Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Nixon&#8217;s chopsticks on display at the Nixon Library. Of course, his historic 1972 visit to China spurred a huge interest in Chinese food, especially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peking_Roast_Duck\">Peking duck<\/a>. Restaurant owners told me, with only slight exaggeration, that lines outside their restaurants formed overnight as a result of his visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/nixon-chopsticks.jpg\" title=\"President Richard Nixon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chopsticks from China\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/nixon-chopsticks.jpg\" title=\"President Richard Nixon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chopsticks from China\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/nixon-chopsticks.jpg\" alt=\"President Richard Nixon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chopsticks from China\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0I actually added this photo to my presentation after I got to the library to make it sort of relevant to Nixon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nixon&#8217;s chopsticks on display at the Nixon Library. Of course, his historic 1972 visit to China spurred a huge interest in Chinese food, especially Peking duck. Restaurant owners told me, with only slight exaggeration, that lines outside their restaurants formed overnight as a result of his visit. \u00c2\u00a0I actually added this photo to my [&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-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-bW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}