{"id":14898,"date":"2012-11-01T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2012-10-31T15:15:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T22:15:19","slug":"black-pepper-was-so-expensive-in-ancient-times-it-was-used-as-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/black-pepper-was-so-expensive-in-ancient-times-it-was-used-as-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Pepper Was So Expensive In Ancient Times, It Was Used As Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?attachment_id=14905\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14905\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14905\" title=\"TIFO Quick Fact - Black Pepper Fact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Black-Pepper-Fact1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Black-Pepper-Fact1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Black-Pepper-Fact1-340x333.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Black-Pepper-Fact1-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Text Version:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nBlack pepper (Piper nigrum) is commonly dried and used as a spice the world over. In earlier times, although pepper was widely well-known as a seasoning, it was very costly which only the affluent could afford. In fact, the Dutch even today use the expression &#8220;peperduur&#8221; in their language, meaning &#8216;pepper expensive&#8217; for\u00a0 something that is very expensive. Pepper was so valuable, that it was used as currency or collateral.\u00a0 It is rumored that Alaric I (King of\u00a0 the Visigoths) as well as Attila (Ruler of the Huns) both demanded a ransom of black pepper (over a ton worth) in order to stop attacking Rome in the 5th century.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Version: Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is commonly dried and used as a spice the world over. In earlier times, although pepper was widely well-known as a seasoning, it was very costly which only the affluent could afford. In fact, the Dutch even today use the expression &#8220;peperduur&#8221; in their language, meaning &#8216;pepper expensive&#8217; for\u00a0 something that is very expensive. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2994,1112,2711,756],"class_list":["post-14898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-black-pepper-fact","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-random-facts","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14935,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14898\/revisions\/14935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}