{"id":18,"date":"2013-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/04\/post-11-flying-pigs-and-korean-unhealthy-food\/"},"modified":"2013-04-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T00:00:00","slug":"post-11-flying-pigs-and-korean-unhealthy-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/04\/post-11-flying-pigs-and-korean-unhealthy-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-11: Flying Pigs and Korean Unhealthy Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"text-align:left;\"><p>(1)\u00a0 Choose an <u style=\"\">un<\/u>healthy Korean food and discuss it.<br \/>(2) Choose a healthy Korean food and discuss it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">I asked MA-Class to write a pair of contrasting short-essays based on these prompts, in the &#8220;Staying Fit&#8221; unit.<\/p>\n<p>I was curious about choices for #1.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;<em>There <u>are<\/u> no unhealthy Korean foods<\/em>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those were the words of <\/span><span>a genuinely-befuddled 7th-grade student<\/span>. This is <em>not <\/em>a student who uses sarcastic excuses to avoid work or something, as some do. No, he was quite serious.<\/p>\n<p>In the short discussion that followed, it seemed that no one in class was willing to concede that <em>any <\/em>&#8220;Korean food&#8221; could be unhealthy. Finally, we agreed that fried-chicken was unhealthy. That is Western food, they said. True. But, I said, given its popularity, we could &#8212; by this point &#8212; dub fried-chicken a defacto Korean food (especially <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korean_fried_chicken\">this variety<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p><span>Result: <\/span>I think almost all the students chose fried-chicken for #1. All or almost all chose kimchi for #2. Groan.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1)\u00a0 Choose an unhealthy Korean food and discuss it.(2) Choose a healthy Korean food and discuss it. I asked MA-Class to write a pair of contrasting short-essays based on these prompts, in the &#8220;Staying Fit&#8221; unit. I was curious about choices for #1. &#8220;There are no unhealthy Korean foods.&#8221; Those were the words of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}