{"id":55042,"date":"2015-09-04T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55042"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:08:30","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55042","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year or two ofdabbling I pretty much swore off Food Porn shows. They&#8217;re all pretty much the same, and the whole &#8220;foodie&#8221; culture has come to annoy the bejeebers out of me.<\/p>\n<p>Since I stopped paying attention to the whole genre years ago, I wasn&#8217;t familiar with Food Network star Alton Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/06\/magazine\/alton-brown-has-had-it-with-foodies.html\">this profile in the NY Times<\/a>, I wish I had encountered him earlier. He eschews &#8220;foodie&#8221; culture &#8211; at least partly on religious, as well as aesthetics, grounds \u2013&nbsp;and is want to show businesses few &#8220;out&#8221; shooters.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth a quick read..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year or two ofdabbling I pretty much swore off Food Porn shows. They&#8217;re all pretty much the same, and the whole &#8220;foodie&#8221; culture has come to annoy the bejeebers out of me. Since I stopped paying attention to the whole genre years ago, I wasn&#8217;t familiar with Food Network star Alton Brown. Reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55043,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55042\/revisions\/55043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}