{"id":4770,"date":"2011-02-21T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:52:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:52:34","slug":"where-the-word-biscuit-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/where-the-word-biscuit-comes-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Word &#8220;Biscuit&#8221; Comes From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/where-bisquit-comes-from.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4771\" title=\"where-bisquit-comes-from\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/where-bisquit-comes-from.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/where-bisquit-comes-from.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/where-bisquit-comes-from-340x213.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why Crackers Have Holes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/why-crackers-have-holes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cbiscuit\u201d, derives from the Latin \u201cbis coctus\u201d, meaning \u201ctwice baked\u201d, which is essentially what many types of biscuits are.\u00a0 The term first showed up in English around the 14th century. In America, the term biscuit now pretty much only means a small, quick rising, soft bread product.\u00a0 In most of the rest of the English speaking world, biscuit still refers to such things as hardtack, small cakes, cookies, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes Text Version The term \u201cbiscuit\u201d, derives from the Latin \u201cbis coctus\u201d, meaning \u201ctwice baked\u201d, which is essentially what many types of biscuits are.\u00a0 The term first showed up in English around the 14th century. In America, the term biscuit now pretty much only means a small, quick rising, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1271],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-biscuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","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=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}