{"id":46,"date":"2001-06-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laaker.com\/cms\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-01-27T21:08:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:08:39","slug":"fast-food-fried-chicken-moratorium-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/press-releases\/2001\/fast-food-fried-chicken-moratorium-announced","title":{"rendered":"Fast-food Fried Chicken Moratorium Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"prbodycopy\">(New York City) &#8211; In a move that sent shock waves through the fast food community, Micah Laaker announced a moratorium on the very places he once so often frequented: fried chicken establishments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">&quot;The joy just isn&#8217;t there any more. Every time I get some spicy chicken at Popeye&#8217;s, my tummy takes a tumbling for the rest of the day,&quot; said Mr. Laaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">Having long listed fried chicken as his second favorite food, next to steak, Mr. Laaker&#8217;s move to restrain his chicken consumption came as a shock to many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">According to friend and office mate Colin Lange, who accompanied Mr. Laaker on his last and fateful visit to Popeye&#8217;s today, Mr. Laaker forcibly moved his unfinished plate of chicken away. &quot;He just started pushing at it, saying he wasn&#8217;t having it. Started whining about an upset stomach. As if the tears weren&#8217;t bad enough, I was sick before I came here. Now, matters are only escalating in &#8216;worseness&#8217; for both of us.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">Apparently, Mr. Laaker&#8217;s moratorium is only on fast-food prepared fried chicken, and no end date was given. If history is any judge, the abstinence will likely not last long. Readers may remember Mr. Laaker&#8217;s <a href=\"pr_2000_04_02.php\">fateful visit to KFC<\/a>, in which salmonella befouled his enjoyment of chicken-partaking for some time; Mr. Laaker was back at Popeye&#8217;s a mere week after recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York City) &#8211; In a move that sent shock waves through the fast food community, Micah Laaker announced a moratorium on the very places he once so often frequented: fried chicken establishments. &quot;The joy just isn&#8217;t there any more. Every time I get some spicy chicken at Popeye&#8217;s, my tummy takes a tumbling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[273,272,274],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-chicken","tag-kfc","tag-salmonella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}