{"id":3996,"date":"2011-01-03T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:17:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:17:19","slug":"the-root-part-of-the-carrot-plant-used-to-not-be-eaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-root-part-of-the-carrot-plant-used-to-not-be-eaten\/","title":{"rendered":"The Root Part of the Carrot Plant Used to Not Be Eaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/root-of-carrot-not-eaten.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3997\" title=\"root-of-carrot-not-eaten\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/root-of-carrot-not-eaten.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/root-of-carrot-not-eaten.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/root-of-carrot-not-eaten-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Carrot Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/carrots-used-to-be-purple-  before-the-17th-century\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for More Interesting Carrot Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In ancient times, the root part of the carrot plant that we eat today was not typically used.\u00a0 The carrot plant however was highly valued due to the medicinal value of its seeds and leaves.\u00a0\u00a0 For instance, Mithridates VI, King of Pontius (around 100BC) had a recipe for counteracting certain poisons with the principle ingredient being carrot seeds.\u00a0 It has since been proven that this concoction actually works.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for More Interesting Carrot Facts Text Version In ancient times, the root part of the carrot plant that we eat today was not typically used.\u00a0 The carrot plant however was highly valued due to the medicinal value of its seeds and leaves.\u00a0\u00a0 For instance, Mithridates VI, King of Pontius (around 100BC) had a recipe for counteracting certain [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1140,1141,647],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-carrot-facts","tag-carrot-history","tag-food-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6995,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/6995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}