{"id":28582,"date":"2026-07-16T19:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28582"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:02:27","slug":"mexican-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28582","title":{"rendered":"Mexican food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two days I will be flying to L.A. for the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. I pointed out to someone that a nice thing about L.A. is that you can get really great Mexican food.<\/p>\n<p>They responded by saying &#8220;What&#8217;s the big deal? I can make perfectly good Mexican food at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was about to reply &#8220;Yes, but in L.A. you can get Mexican food that&#8217;s all made by real Mexicans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But then I realized something. Right here in New York City you can get French, Korean, Japanese, Ukrainian, Chinese, Middle Eastern or Italian food that&#8217;s all made by real Mexicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two days I will be flying to L.A. for the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. I pointed out to someone that a nice thing about L.A. is that you can get really great Mexican food. They responded by saying &#8220;What&#8217;s the big deal? I can make perfectly good Mexican food at home.&#8221; I was about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28582\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mexican food&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28583,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582\/revisions\/28583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}