{"id":3804,"date":"2008-07-21T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2008-07-21T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:14:25","slug":"why_does_sf_hate_delicious_things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/why_does_sf_hate_delicious_things\/","title":{"rendered":"why does sf hate delicious things?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City has a quota of 3,000 street food licenses with a years-long waiting list and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetvendor.org\/vendies.html\">Vendy Awards<\/a>, an annual cook-off to celebrate the city&#8217;s best food carts. Meanwhile San Francisco, by all accounts an equally food-obsessed city, only has 120 licensed pushcarts\u2014and 71 of them are inside a ballpark. <a href=\"http:\/\/sfweekly.com\/2008-07-16\/news\/state-of-the-cart\/full\">Why so few carts on the streets?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rules include leaving 10 unobstructed feet of pedestrian passage, not being within 18 inches of a curb, not stopping on sidewalks with colored curbs, not being within 12 feet of a building&#8217;s entrance, and not selling food available in restaurants within 600 feet. Entrepreneurs complain that year-round licenses forbid cooking on the carts, so food can&#8217;t be fresh but must be prepared ahead and reheated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also: no carts within 1,500 of a school. Oh SF, you nanny state, you!<br \/>\nPreviously: <a href=\"http:\/\/lliiaa.com\/2003\/11\/13\/my_town_can_take_your_town.php\">my town can take your town<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City has a quota of 3,000 street food licenses with a years-long waiting list and the Vendy Awards, an annual cook-off to celebrate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}