{"id":26252,"date":"2017-07-05T14:47:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26252"},"modified":"2017-07-05T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:47:35","slug":"a-fascinating-ethnographic-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26252","title":{"rendered":"\"A fascinating ethnographic adventure\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistani guy writes the most <em>New York Times<\/em> article the New York Times has ever published.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/04\/opinion\/going-to-hooters-and-seeing-america.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark&_r=0\">It sounds like<\/a> the beginning of an uncomfortable joke: Four brown kids of Pakistani descent \u2014 from Karachi, Dubai, London and Augusta, Ga. \u2014 walk into a Hooters on a recent Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>They order cheese fries, mozzarella sticks and a plate of fried pickles that will later give the Londoner (me) a wild bout of indigestion. Waitresses in the company\u2019s trademark orange shorts flit about, taking orders and smiling at families with children. Burly men in baseball caps clink pints of gold libation. Football plays on one flat screen TV, but is muted for the golf tournament that plays on another.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, this expedition wasn\u2019t a joke, but more of a fascinating ethnographic adventure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Behold the exotic sports bar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistani guy writes the most New York Times article the New York Times has ever published. It sounds like the beginning of an uncomfortable joke: Four brown kids of Pakistani descent \u2014 from Karachi, Dubai, London and Augusta, Ga. \u2014 walk into a Hooters on a recent Saturday afternoon. They order cheese fries, mozzarella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26253,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252\/revisions\/26253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}