{"id":2623,"date":"2008-01-16T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2008-01-16T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T19:45:00","slug":"because-you-always-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"Because You Always Wanted To Know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/16\/dining\/16fort.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=all\">fortune cookies are a Japanese invention<\/a>, imported to America, and then spread by servicemen who saw them in San Francisco (just like a social disease), then taken over by Chinese manufacturers after internment. Quoting from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Japanese may have invented the fortune cookie. But the Chinese people really explored the potential of the fortune cookie. It\u2019s Chinese-American culture. It only happens here, not in China.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times, fortune cookies are a Japanese invention, imported to America, and then spread by servicemen who saw them in San Francisco (just like a social disease), then taken over by Chinese manufacturers after internment. Quoting from the article: \u201cThe Japanese may have invented the fortune cookie. But the Chinese people <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2623\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}