{"id":5475,"date":"2011-05-18T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:16:19","slug":"before-the-20th-century-apples-were-rarely-eaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/before-the-20th-century-apples-were-rarely-eaten\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the 20th Century, Apples Were Rarely Eaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/apple-drunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5476\" title=\"apple-drunk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/apple-drunk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/apple-drunk.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/apple-drunk-340x328.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>Apples weren&#8217;t typically eaten previous to the 20th century.\u00a0 Before then, apples were generally used to make alcoholic drinks.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until around the early 1900s, thanks to groups like the Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union, that people popularly stopped using apples for drink and decided they should eat them.\u00a0 At this time, the WCTU was campaigning against the evils of alcohol (mainly tired of all the drunken men going around abusing them and their children; many people at this time drank water only when absolutely necessary.)\u00a0\u00a0 When alcohol started becoming unpopular in America at this time, apple farmers switched their tact and began promoting the apple as a food item for keeping healthy: \u201cAn apple a day keeps the doctor away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Johny Appleseed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/johnny-appleseed-was-a-real-person\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn About the Real Life Johnny Appleseed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Apples weren&#8217;t typically eaten previous to the 20th century.\u00a0 Before then, apples were generally used to make alcoholic drinks.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until around the early 1900s, thanks to groups like the Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union, that people popularly stopped using apples for drink and decided they should eat them.\u00a0 At this time, the WCTU was campaigning against the evils [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1364,647],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-apple-facts","tag-food-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","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=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7172,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions\/7172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}