{"id":10884,"date":"2009-07-17T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2012-10-19T01:38:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T06:38:36","slug":"the-social-construction-of-prunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/07\/17\/the-social-construction-of-prunes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Construction Of Prunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we think of prunes as something old people eat.\u00a0 But, as <a href=\"http:\/\/pzrservices.typepad.com\/vintageadvertising\/2009\/07\/a-valiant-attempt-to-sell-prunes-to-kids-in-1958.html\" target=\"_blank\">this ad from 1958<\/a> reveals, the California Prune Advisory Board hoped to make prunes a favorite with moms and kids.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10886\" title=\"Picture1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/Picture1-1024x955.jpg\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"559\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/Picture1-1024x955.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/Picture1-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Win their hearts with prune tarts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just yummy, Mummy!\u00a0 A delicious, healthy way to satisfy that yearning for sweets.\u00a0 Wonderful California prunes are fairly bursting with energy, iron, vitamins and minerals.<\/p>\n<p>To make delicious, decorative prune tarts just use your favorite prune whip recipe.\u00a0 Pour into tart shells and top with whole prunes, stuffed with almonds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we think of prunes as something old people eat.\u00a0 But, as this ad from 1958 reveals, the California Prune Advisory Board hoped to make prunes a favorite with moms and kids. Text: Win their hearts with prune tarts Just yummy, Mummy!\u00a0 A delicious, healthy way to satisfy that yearning for sweets.\u00a0 Wonderful California prunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,2124,253,272,293,23705],"class_list":["post-10884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-foodagriculture","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily","tag-social-construction","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10890,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions\/10890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}