{"id":7159,"date":"2012-04-16T10:11:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:11:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:11:24","slug":"the_solution_embrace_the_cheap_shit_chinese_genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/the_solution_embrace_the_cheap_shit_chinese_genre.html","title":{"rendered":"The Solution? Embrace The &#8220;Cheap Shit Chinese&#8221; Genre . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Otherwise you run the risk of sounding like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/chinese_gourmand_grouser_watRoEQWqfSi6DIhMVpQvJ\">pretentious asshole<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A sweet-and-sour Brooklyn scribe is so nauseated by his neighborhood&#8217;s lousy Chinese food that he&#8217;s cooked up an online petition to lure a better chef to the &#8216;hood.<\/p>\n<p>[A] Former New Yorker magazine web editor [ . . . ] says he&#8217;ll collect a few hundred signatures and personally deliver them to Manhattan Szechuan joints &#8212; hoping it&#8217;ll coax them to move their woks to Prospect Heights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody deserves better Chinese food,&#8221; said [the man], 41, &#8220;but neighborhood Chinese restaurants seem to have gotten worse.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otherwise you run the risk of sounding like pretentious asshole: A sweet-and-sour Brooklyn scribe is so nauseated by his neighborhood&#8217;s lousy Chinese food that he&#8217;s cooked up an online petition to lure a better chef to the &#8216;hood. [A] Former New Yorker magazine web editor [ . . . ] says he&#8217;ll collect a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-feed","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7161,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions\/7161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}