{
 "built": "2026-09-18",
 "scope": "Chicken wings across America — how they get cooked, sauced, sold, eaten and argued over. Buffalo's, and every city that did its own thing after.",
 "records": {
  "style": 13,
  "sauce": 22,
  "dish": 18,
  "fry": 15,
  "place": 33,
  "person": 18,
  "org": 5,
  "event": 4,
  "term": 18,
  "art": 6,
  "story": 6
 },
 "how_records_are_made": "Hand-written JSON, one per node, each field carrying a provenance tier (cited / harvested / tradition / inference / field). Cited fields name a source in sources.json. Tradition fields are general knowledge of the tradition and are hedged in the text.",
 "places": {
  "curated": 33,
  "harvested_from_osm": 1296,
  "osm_fetched_at": "2026-09-17T10:42:27Z",
  "osm_states_fetched": 12,
  "osm_states_total": 51,
  "reading_an_absence": "A place missing here is missing from OpenStreetMap on the fetch date or not yet written up. It is not a claim that the place does not exist.",
  "osm_query": "[out:json][timeout:240];area[\"ISO3166-2\"=\"US-XX\"][admin_level]->.a;nwr[\"cuisine\"~\"wings|chicken_wings|buffalo_wings\",i](area.a);out center tags;   ||   [out:json][timeout:240];area[\"ISO3166-2\"=\"US-XX\"][admin_level]->.a;(nwr[\"amenity\"=\"restaurant\"][\"name\"~\"[Ww]ing\"](area.a);nwr[\"amenity\"=\"fast_food\"][\"name\"~\"[Ww]ing\"](area.a);nwr[\"amenity\"=\"bar\"][\"name\"~\"[Ww]ing\"](area.a);nwr[\"amenity\"=\"pub\"][\"name\"~\"[Ww]ing\"](area.a);nwr[\"amenity\"=\"cafe\"][\"name\"~\"[Ww]ing\"](area.a););out center tags;"
 },
 "hours": {
  "places_with_any_day_known": 367,
  "open_sunday": 330,
  "closed_sunday": 37,
  "sunday_unknown": 959,
  "reading_an_absence": "A day is 'unknown' unless a source said so. Unknown is never rendered as closed."
 },
 "images": {
  "count": 68,
  "licences_accepted": [
   "CC0",
   "Public domain",
   "CC BY",
   "CC BY-SA",
   "FAL"
  ]
 },
 "tags": {
  "black-owned": 5,
  "woman-owned": 2,
  "lgbtq-friendly": 0,
  "family-run": 13,
  "naked": 1,
  "breaded": 4,
  "smoked": 3,
  "house-sauce": 23,
  "choose-your-piece": 0,
  "bone-in-only": 3,
  "wing-night": 1,
  "late-night": 9,
  "halal": 1,
  "cash-only": 2,
  "sold-out-closes": 0,
  "takeout-window": 6,
  "bar": 12,
  "closed": 0
 },
 "tags_note": "Each tag carries the source it came from — the owner's words, a press profile, a public directory or a list. A place with no tag is one this project has not read.",
 "recognitions": 47,
 "recipes": 28,
 "sources": 295,
 "not_yet": [
  "field observations (no record carries the field tier yet)",
  "menu prices with dates on most places",
  "most cities beyond the ones written up",
  "photographs for most records",
  "Scoville numbers nobody publishes"
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "cited": "Cited — a named source, linked",
  "harvested": "Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence",
  "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged",
  "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
  "field": "Field — someone stood there"
 }
}