{"id":1270,"date":"2013-04-20T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2013-04-20T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:08:26","slug":"ancient-vietnamese-secret-hot-sauce-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Vietnamese Secret Hot Sauce Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the LA Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/print\/2013\/apr\/12\/business\/la-fi-himi-tran-20130414\">A profile of Sririchia maker\/genius David Tran<\/a>, who has steadfastly refused to sell stock, sell out, or deviate from his high production standards , no matter what. A few worthy quotes to pull:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Hot sauce must be hot. If you don&#8217;t like it hot, use less,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t make mayonnaise here.&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8220;My American dream was never to become a billionaire,&#8221; Tran said. &#8220;We started this because we like fresh, spicy chili sauce.&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#8220;We just do our own thing and try to keep the price low,&#8221; Tran said.<br \/>\n  &#8220;Who knows where the company will go? We just always try to make the best sauce possible,&#8221; Tran said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the LA Times: A profile of Sririchia maker\/genius David Tran, who has steadfastly refused to sell stock, sell out, or deviate from his high production standards , no matter what. A few worthy quotes to pull: &#8220;Hot sauce must be hot. If you don&#8217;t like it hot, use less,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t make mayonnaise here.&#8221; &#8220;My American dream &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}