{"id":4141,"date":"2011-07-27T05:55:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2011-11-08T21:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:30:27","slug":"where-the-term-the-real-mccoy-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/where-the-term-the-real-mccoy-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Term \u201cThe Real McCoy\u201d Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/real-mccoy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4142\" title=\"real-mccoy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/real-mccoy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/real-mccoy.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/real-mccoy-340x189.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Prohibition Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/the-american-government-once-intentionally-poisoned-certain-alcohol-supplies-resulting-in-the-death-of-over-10000-american-citizens\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Prohibition Related Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cThe Real McCoy\u201d originated in the prohibition era.\u00a0 Captain William S. McCoy was a rum runner who coordinated most rum transported by ship during prohibition.\u00a0 He was known for never watering down his imports; thus, his product was \u201cThe Real McCoy\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Prohibition Related Facts Text Version The term \u201cThe Real McCoy\u201d originated in the prohibition era.\u00a0 Captain William S. McCoy was a rum runner who coordinated most rum transported by ship during prohibition.\u00a0 He was known for never watering down his imports; thus, his product was \u201cThe Real McCoy\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[994,995],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-real-mccoy","tag-prohibition-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}