{"id":65236,"date":"2015-11-25T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=65236"},"modified":"2015-11-25T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:31:23","slug":"23-thanksgiving-food-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/11\/25\/23-thanksgiving-food-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Thanksgiving Food Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five minutes for fun facts on this almost-Thanksgiving day in the US. Some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stuffing goes back to at least the 4th century CE.<\/li>\n<li>Potatoes are truly an American tuber; it&#8217;s grown in every 50 states.<\/li>\n<li>Corn is a flower.<\/li>\n<li>Meat pies preceded desert pies and they were called &#8220;coffins.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In case you need a 15th century aphrodisiac recipe: boiled peas and onions sprinkled with cinnamon, ginger, and cardamon.<\/li>\n<li>The average American eats between 3,000 and 5,000 calories at Thanksgiving dinner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCpZ5qUqpW4hW4zdfuBxMSJA\" target=\"_blank\">Mental Floss<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0UM7i8BBBBA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five minutes for fun facts on this almost-Thanksgiving day in the US. Some of my favorites: Stuffing goes back to at least the 4th century CE. Potatoes are truly an American tuber; it&#8217;s grown in every 50 states. Corn is a flower. Meat pies preceded desert pies and they were called &#8220;coffins.&#8221; In case you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":65238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,253,254],"class_list":["post-65236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-history","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/11\/222.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65236","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=65236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68406,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65236\/revisions\/68406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}