{"id":303587,"date":"2021-09-08T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressive.org\/magazine\/my-chopsticks-story-farsad\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:20:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:20:58","slug":"hemming-and-hawing-my-chopsticks-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/08\/hemming-and-hawing-my-chopsticks-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemming and Hawing: My Chopsticks Story"},"content":{"rendered":"I have a secret, a dirty secret, something that\u2019s caused a lot of heartache and pain over the years. It\u2019s not my fault. I was born this way. You see, I have fat fingers. Fat fingers that . . . oh God, here comes the truth . . . cannot wield chopsticks.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/magazine\/my-chopsticks-story-farsad\/\">The Progressive \u2014 A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a secret, a dirty secret, something that\u2019s caused a lot of heartache and pain over the years. It\u2019s not my fault. I was born this way. You see, I have fat fingers. Fat fingers that . . . oh God, here comes the truth . . . cannot wield chopsticks&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303704,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303587\/revisions\/303704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}