{"id":1137,"date":"2017-03-08T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2017-03-08T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:49:39","slug":"thai-food-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2017\/03\/08\/thai-food-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Food in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, when some of my friends forced me to eat Thai food for dinner, I had no idea what I was getting into. A few months later and it is one of my favorite types of food. Whether it\u2019s chicken pad thai, a chicken curry dish, or tom kha soup, I rarely go a week without eating some sort of Thai dish. Interested to learn about how this food became so popular in America, I did some research on the history of Thai food and how its popularity spread so quickly across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1140\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/12958554_ml_web-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/12958554_ml_web-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/12958554_ml_web-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/12958554_ml_web-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/12958554_ml_web-676x449.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/03\/12958554_ml_web.jpg 1681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/18znYjNeekqwiC1lBsf38dnQz5kf_15B1huxWwlnmfNc\/edit?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/18znYjNeekqwiC1lBsf38dnQz5kf_15B1huxWwlnmfNc\/edit?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, when some of my friends forced me to eat Thai food for dinner, I had no idea what I was getting into. A few months later and it is one of my favorite types of food. Whether it\u2019s chicken pad thai, a chicken curry dish, or tom kha soup, I rarely go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}