{"id":969,"date":"2011-07-04T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.info\/wordpress\/?p=969"},"modified":"2011-07-04T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T15:09:27","slug":"happy-birthday-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Independence Day in the United States. To help you celebrate the Red, White, and Blue, I have picked some battles with an American connection or with a red, white, or blue theme. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=170\" target=\"_blank\">336<\/a> \u2013 Matsutake \u2013 Michiba vs. Noda \u2013 The first American-born challenger.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=145\" target=\"_blank\">901<\/a> \u2013 21st Century Battle \u2013 RED Snapper\/Spiny Lobster \u2013 Sakai vs. Kandagawa and an All-American rematch featuring Morimoto and Bobby Flay.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=166\" target=\"_blank\">607<\/a> \u2013 RED Snapper \u2013 Morimoto vs. Hirayama \u2013 The debut battle of the American-based Iron Chef Japanese Morimoto.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=28\" target=\"_blank\">324<\/a> \u2013 BLUE Crab \u2013 Michba vs. Mingxing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=177\" target=\"_blank\">627<\/a> &#8211; BLUE Crab &#8211; Kobe vs. Sakai<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=143\" target=\"_blank\">802a<\/a> \u2013 New York Battle \u2013 Part 1 \u2013 The Iron Chefs tour New York.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=144\" target=\"_blank\">802b<\/a> \u2013 New York Battle \u2013 Rock Crab Battle \u2013 Morimoto vs. Flay \u2013 The first battle to take place in the United States.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=274\" target=\"_blank\">802OA<\/a> \u2013 Original Japanese version of the New York Battle \u2013 (Read this for a list of differences between the original version and the Food Network version.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=216\" target=\"_blank\">709OAa<\/a> \u2013 Morimoto Retrospective \u2013 Iron Chef Michiba visits Morimoto in New York.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=257\" target=\"_blank\">Morimoto RAW<\/a> \u2013 Special detailing the opening of Morimoto\u2019s restaurant in Philadelphia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?title=Lobster_Battle_-_Siegel_vs._Sakai\" target=\"_blank\">636<\/a> \u2013 Lobster \u2013 Sakai vs. Siegel \u2013 The first American challenger to win in Kitchen Stadium<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filehouse.ironcheffans.info\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=336\" target=\"_blank\">503<\/a> &#8211; European Rabbit &#8211; Sakai vs. Kennedy &#8211; The challenger is a British chef who heads a restaurant that was founded less than 30 years after the Revolutionary War with the colonies (1798).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy some Iron Chef.\u00a0Fire up the grill. Watch some fireworks. Have a great holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eyes open for a brand new post later today when I&#8217;ll be adding 4 new subtitled episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Independence Day in the United States. To help you celebrate the Red, White, and Blue, I have picked some battles with an American connection or with a red, white, or blue theme. Enjoy. 336 \u2013 Matsutake \u2013 Michiba vs. Noda \u2013 The first American-born challenger. 901 \u2013 21st Century Battle \u2013 RED Snapper\/Spiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}