{"id":184845,"date":"2012-01-05T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/05\/just-desserts\/"},"modified":"2012-01-05T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T03:57:00","slug":"just-desserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/05\/just-desserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Desserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img687.imageshack.us\/img687\/2420\/funnypicturescatstastes.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/>You know, generally, I&#8217;m not in favor or murder.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>That being said, when I heard about this Chinese Tycoon&#8217;s poisoning, and I looked at the recipe, I thought, well, he had it coming:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/05\/world\/asia\/chinese-tycoon-dies-after-eating-poisoned-cat-stew.html\">Poisonous Herb Spices Cat Stew in Felonious Pot<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By DAVID BARBOZA<\/p>\n<p>SHANGHAI \u2014 There was one very disagreeable ingredient in the steaming hot pot of stew that may have killed a Chinese tycoon. And it was not the <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">cat meat<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The police have detained a local township official on suspicion that he murdered the tycoon, a business associate who may have caught the official cheating, by dropping a poisonous herb into a <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">cat-meat hot pot<\/span><\/b>, a shared stew that is a local delicacy, China\u2019s state-run news media reported Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I understand that they have different customs and dietary habits, but <b>cat<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p>Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, generally, I&#8217;m not in favor or murder.&nbsp; That being said, when I heard about this Chinese Tycoon&#8217;s poisoning, and I looked at the recipe, I thought, well, he had it coming: Poisonous Herb Spices Cat Stew in Felonious Pot By DAVID BARBOZA SHANGHAI \u2014 There was one very disagreeable ingredient in the steaming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,1052,1012,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-crimes","category-food","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}