{"id":311,"date":"2009-12-01T08:16:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T16:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/scrapple-flame-war\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T13:58:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T21:58:27","slug":"scrapple-flame-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/scrapple-flame-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrapple Flame War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rise from my sick bed to give you <a href=\"http:\/\/dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/01\/the-way-we-ate-the-great-scrapple-correspondence-of-1872\/\">a very funny blog post<\/a> (that is, someone else&#8217;s very funny blog post) about food commentary <i>circa<\/i> 1872, in the form of letters to the <i>NY Times<\/i> about scrapple.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the next two weeks, the Times published more than two dozen letters on the subject of scrapple, which, taken together, form a sort of steampunk prototype for online food discussion. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all there: the pseudonymous \u00e2\u20ac\u0153usernames,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the off-topic ranting, the preoccupation with pork fat. In short, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a modern-day food thread in very slow motion. &#8230; As always, the haters far outnumbered the fans: One reader declared that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d just as soon fry bread in lard and eat it than partake in what others called an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153abominable mess,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153culinary fraud upon the stomach\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a great way to contract trichinosis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still working on Thanksgiving leftovers. Maybe I&#8217;ll make that soup tonight; I could certainly use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI rise from my sick bed to give you a very funny blog post (that is, someone else&#8217;s very funny&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/scrapple-flame-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Scrapple Flame War&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}