{"id":2218,"date":"2005-08-10T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2005-08-10T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T15:47:00","slug":"baghdad-chow-mein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/08\/10\/11\/47\/baghdad-chow-mein\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad Chow Mein"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/10\/international\/middleeast\/10restaurant.html?ex=1281326400&#038;en=109047030671ca83&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Things were looking up for Chen Xianzhong, proprietor of Baghdad&#8217;s first authentic Chinese restaurant in the new Iraq, until a suicide car bomber blew up outside the place less than two weeks ago. The deafening blast shattered the windows and spewed body parts into the dining room. A foot landed on the pavement outside and a tire landed in the restaurant&#8217;s second floor. &#8220;There were small pieces of flesh all over, even on the roof,&#8221; Mr. Chen said. Now, he does takeout only for the few loyal customers that continue to call &#8230; &#8220;I wanted to open the best Chinese restaurant ever in Iraq,&#8221; Mr. Chen said, adding that he imported four containers of powders, sauces, roots, pickled vegetables and other Chinese culinary supplies &#8211; enough to keep his 400-seat restaurant serving kung pao chicken for three or four years.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things were looking up for Chen Xianzhong, proprietor of Baghdad&#8217;s first authentic Chinese restaurant in the new Iraq, until a suicide car bomber blew up outside the place less than two weeks ago. The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}