{"id":702995,"date":"2010-03-28T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T13:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2010-03-28T09:32:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T13:32:33","slug":"an-edible-schoolyard-and-an-empire-sofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/702995","title":{"rendered":"An Edible Schoolyard and an Empire Sofa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2881\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2881\" title=\"IMG_7448\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/63-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Joe Truex cooking at Avoyelles Public Charter School\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Truex cooking at Avoyelles Public Charter School<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This story appeared in today&#8217;s print edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It is about a trip I took with my friend, the chef Joe Truex, to his home in Louisiana. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mansura, Louisiana &#8212; <\/strong>Joe Truex parks his Subaru station wagon in front of my house before dawn. An orange U-Haul trailer, glowing in the street lights, tilts oddly behind it. \u201cIt\u2019s not sitting right,\u201d Joe worries, squatting by the hitch and giving it a tug. \u201cI guess we\u2019ll find out if it holds,\u201d he adds, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Joe and his wife, Mihoko Obunai, own the prominent Atlanta restaurant Repast. Because they are  near neighbors and have become good friends, I stay clear of appraising or recommending their food. But that morning I pack both hats \u2014 writer and friend \u2014 for our road trip. We take off on a voyage to his boyhood home in central Louisiana, where  his past and future would await. There, Joe will headline the kind of gig that every chef &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Truex cooking at Avoyelles Public Charter School This story appeared in today&#8217;s print edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It is about a trip I took with my friend, the chef Joe Truex, to his home in Louisiana. Mansura, Louisiana &#8212; Joe Truex parks his Subaru station wagon in front of my house before dawn. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WSD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}