{"id":3051,"date":"2014-07-01T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T01:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?page_id=3051"},"modified":"2014-06-30T17:06:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:36:40","slug":"food-corner-july","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/food-corner-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Corner &#8211; July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did You Know That Lettuce Was A Sacred Sex Symbol?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lettuce_Dwight-Sipler.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3052\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Lettuce_Dwight Sipler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lettuce_Dwight-Sipler-300x211.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lettuce has been harvested for millenia\u2014 artistic depictions by ancient Egyptians on the walls of tombs date back to at least 2,700 B.C.\u00a0But in Ancient Egypt around 2,000 B.C., lettuce was not a popular appetizer, it was an aphrodisiac, a phallic symbol that represented the celebrated food of the Egyptian god of fertility, Min.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/when-lettuce-was-a-sacred-sex-symbol-12271795\/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\">Read more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pic Source: Dwight Sipler (Wikimedia Commons\/Flickr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did You Know That Lettuce Was A Sacred Sex Symbol? Lettuce has been harvested for millenia\u2014 artistic depictions by ancient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3051","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3051\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}