{"id":86,"date":"2007-11-13T21:11:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T01:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2007-11-13T21:11:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T01:11:32","slug":"picking-on-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/13\/picking-on-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking on Bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an avowed Bill Simmons fan, but I have to point <a href=http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=simmons\/071113&#038;sportCat=nba&#038;campaign=rsssrch&#038;source=bill_simmons>this one<\/a> out:<\/p>\n<p><i>Reason No. 12,349 why I love the NBA: In honor of Friday night&#8217;s historic Yi-Yao matchup, I successfully convinced the Sports Gal to order Chinese food and watched the first quarter while eating General Tso&#8217;s Chicken.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Um, Bill, General Tso&#8217;s Chicken is about as Chinese as I am. Maybe less so. (Sugar has always been expensive in China since the country had to import it, so it&#8217;s very unlikely that they would have used it in a savory dish like this one. The leading theory is that the dish we know was invented in the US in the 1970s.) Next time, try the twice-cooked pork belly if you want to get your <i>zhen zhongguo fan<\/i> on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an avowed Bill Simmons fan, but I have to point this one out: Reason No. 12,349 why I love the NBA: In honor of Friday night&#8217;s historic Yi-Yao matchup, I successfully convinced the Sports Gal to order Chinese food and watched the first quarter while eating General Tso&#8217;s Chicken. Um, Bill, General Tso&#8217;s Chicken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-humor","category-media","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}