{"id":1650,"date":"2018-12-27T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T00:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2018-12-27T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T00:40:06","slug":"as-american-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"As American As&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chinabox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chinabox-269x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chinabox-269x300.png 269w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chinabox.png 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a>In this holiday season many families gather around traditional meals to celebrate. \u00a0Sharing food that has cultural significance from recipes passed down through the generations. \u00a0One fascinating aspect\u00a0of the American landscape is the (across the board) popularity of Chinese food on Christmas Day. \u00a0Lillian Li sheds light on this phenomenon in her article,\u00a0<span class=\"balancedHeadline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/25\/opinion\/christmas-chinese-food.html\">Nothing Is More American Than Chinese Food on Christmas<\/a>. \u00a0She explores the history of cultural diversity during a time in American history of great segregation, all centered around the Chinese restaurant. \u00a0During this time, many\u00a0were open on Christmas because early immigrants from China were not Christian and saw no reason to miss a day of business. \u00a0What started as a simple\u00a0monetary\u00a0decision\u00a0has made Chinese food part\u00a0the Christmas, American fabric.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this holiday season many families gather around traditional meals to celebrate. \u00a0Sharing food that has cultural significance from recipes passed down through the generations. \u00a0One fascinating aspect\u00a0of the American landscape is the (across the board) popularity of Chinese food on Christmas Day. \u00a0Lillian Li sheds light on this phenomenon in her article,\u00a0Nothing Is More &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1650\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As American As&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,459],"tags":[1238,1236,1232,1235,1233,1234,1068,1237,1239],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-model","category-holidays","tag-american","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-food","tag-christian","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-day","tag-holiday","tag-immigrants","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}