{"id":80,"date":"2026-09-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/why-we-cook-every-taco-over-live-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:00:00","slug":"why-we-cook-every-taco-over-live-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/why-we-cook-every-taco-over-live-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we cook every taco over live fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gas is easy. Embers are not. Here is why we still build a mesquite fire at 6am every single day, and what it does to a humble piece of pork shoulder.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every truck has a story, and ours starts with fire. Before the doors open we light the grill, let the wood burn down to glowing embers and only then start cooking. It takes longer, it is harder to control, and it tastes completely different.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What makes the difference<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smoke, char and patience. Those three things turn simple ingredients into something people cross town for. Stop by the truck this week and taste it for yourself.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas is easy. Embers are not. Here is why we still build a mesquite fire at 6am every single day, and what it does to a humble piece of pork shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.alulethmarketing.com\/ascua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}