{"id":6240,"date":"2013-06-27T06:49:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T06:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2013-06-27T06:49:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T06:49:58","slug":"orders-for-racist-paula-deen-cookbook-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6240","title":{"rendered":"Orders for &#8216;racist&#8217; Paula Deen cookbook surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6242\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6242\" alt=\"Paula Deen\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deen-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deen-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deen-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deen.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Deen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advance orders for Paula Deen\u2019s new cookbook have surged since the Food Network and Smithfield Foods axed her for using a racial slur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Orders for \u201cPaula Deen\u2019s New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up\u201d surged on Amazon by nearly 1,300% in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cookbook was ranked 115th on Tuesday, compared to a ranking of 1,592nd on Monday<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPaula Deen\u2019s New Testament\u201d is not available until October. Deen\u2019s agent did not immediately return a message from CNNMoney about the book sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scripps Networks Interactive\u2019s Food Network announced June 21 that it would not renew Deen\u2019s contract after reports emerged that she admitted, during a court deposition in May, using racial slurs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYes, of course,\u201d said Deen, when asked by a lawyer if she had ever used the \u201cN word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deen\u2019s television contract expires at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pork producer and former Deen sponsor Smithfield Foods cut its ties on Monday. &#8211; CNNMoney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advance orders for Paula Deen\u2019s new cookbook have surged since the Food Network and Smithfield Foods axed her for using a racial slur. Orders for \u201cPaula Deen\u2019s New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up\u201d surged on Amazon by nearly 1,300% in the last 24 hours. The cookbook was ranked 115th on Tuesday, compared to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orders for &#8216;racist&#8217; Paula Deen cookbook surge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[3526,3523,3525,3524],"class_list":["post-6240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-n-word","tag-paula-deen","tag-paula-deens-new-testament","tag-racial-slur"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}