{"id":30450,"date":"2023-02-15T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30450"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:52:38","slug":"beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/beans\/","title":{"rendered":"BEANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I was<\/strong><\/span> staying at a Yucatecan restaurant called Zazil Ha. I didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;Zazil Ha&#8221; meant. (It&#8217;s the name of a 16th-century Mayan princess.) I was staying there a while, not just for dinner. I lived above the restaurant for six weeks, eating beans, beans, and more beans. I was 18. I didn\u2019t really like beans. I didn\u2019t like Mexican food, period. I went to KFC on occasion and lived off oatmeal and Pan Bimbo. Mexico City, 1968, the summer after I graduated high school.<\/p>\n<p>I missed the shootings at the national university, and I missed the Olympics. But I caught Pan Bimbo, which is white bread. I lived with three college boys from Wisconsin and Minnesota who called me &#8220;a stop,\u201d which meant I supposedly stopped them from getting laid.<\/p>\n<p>I took a course, History of Mexico, at the Universidad Ibero-Americana. I got a couple credit hours at Michigan for that.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">I still <\/span><\/strong>like KFC. I haven\u2019t had any lately, but when I\u2019m in hospice care I want some KFC. (And I like Mexican food now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was staying at a Yucatecan restaurant called Zazil Ha. I didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;Zazil Ha&#8221; meant. (It&#8217;s the name of a 16th-century Mayan princess.) I was staying there a while, not just for dinner. I lived above the restaurant for six weeks, eating beans, beans, and more beans. I was 18. I didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30450"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30544,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450\/revisions\/30544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}