{"id":15100,"date":"2017-02-27T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15100"},"modified":"2017-02-26T23:24:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T04:24:28","slug":"the-worlds-most-widely-read-writer-has-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-worlds-most-widely-read-writer-has-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Most Widely Read Writer Has Retired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/022717_0422_TheWorldsMo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not J.K. Rowling. Or John Grisham. Or E.L. James. No, the most widely read author is arguably the person who writes all the fortunes for fortune cookies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald Lau wrote the fortunes for Wonton Food \u2013 which claims that it is the largest manufacturer of fortune cookies \u2013 for over 30 years.<\/li>\n<li>He used to write 100 a year but started suffering from writer&#8217;s block. This is a problem because fans of the cookie frequently complain about finding repeat fortunes.<\/li>\n<li>The fortunes that Lau wrote went through a committee vetting process to make sure they would appeal to the widest possible audience.<\/li>\n<li>The consequences of a fortune that isn&#8217;t fully thought through can be dire. One man set for a business trip got a fortune saying he&#8217;d find romance on his next trip. His wife divorced him and blamed the fortune cookie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/asithappens\/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.3991263\/meet-the-new-writer-for-one-of-the-world-s-biggest-fortune-cookie-makers-1.3991264\">CBC<\/a>. Read our previous coverage on fortune cookies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/?s=fortune+cookie\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not J.K. Rowling. Or John Grisham. Or E.L. James. No, the most widely read author is arguably the person who writes all the fortunes for fortune cookies: Donald Lau wrote the fortunes for Wonton Food \u2013 which claims that it is the largest manufacturer of fortune cookies \u2013 for over 30 years. He used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/022717_0422_TheWorldsMo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15102,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions\/15102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}