{"id":5206,"date":"2011-04-19T01:03:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T08:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:08:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:08:40","slug":"the-first-cracker-was-made-in-1792","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/the-first-cracker-was-made-in-1792\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Cracker Was Made in 1792"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/first-cracker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5207\" title=\"first-cracker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/first-cracker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/first-cracker.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/first-cracker-340x227.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 to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first cracker was made in 1792 by John Pearson in Newburyport, Massachusetts.\u00a0 Pearson was looking to make a type of biscuit that would last longer than traditional sailor\u2019s biscuits without spoiling. He eventually mixed just flour and water, baked it, and called his invention \u201cPearson\u2019s Pilot Bread\u201d.\u00a0 This later became known as \u201chardtack\u201d or \u201csea biscuit\u201d.\u00a0 This type of biscuit became incredibly popular among sea-faring folk due to its long shelf life without spoiling.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes The first cracker was made in 1792 by John Pearson in Newburyport, Massachusetts.\u00a0 Pearson was looking to make a type of biscuit that would last longer than traditional sailor\u2019s biscuits without spoiling. He eventually mixed just flour and water, baked it, and called his invention \u201cPearson\u2019s Pilot Bread\u201d.\u00a0 This later became [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1338,647],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-cracker-origins","tag-food-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","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=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}