{"id":4630,"date":"2011-02-08T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:49:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:49:43","slug":"how-catgut-strings-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/how-catgut-strings-are-made\/","title":{"rendered":"How Catgut Strings are Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/how-catgut-strings-are-made.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4631\" title=\"how-catgut-strings-are-made\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/how-catgut-strings-are-made.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/how-catgut-strings-are-made.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/how-catgut-strings-are-made-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Violin Strings Were Never Made Out of Actual Cat Guts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.misconceptionjunction.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/violin-strings-were-never-made-out-of-actual-cat-guts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Catgut String Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Catgut strings are prepared by cleaning the intestines of fat and other undesirable additions.\u00a0 They do this by soaking the guts in water, then using a knife to scrape off the various things, such as fat, attached to the intestines.\u00a0 From there, the intestines are soaked in an alkaline substance and smoothed out.\u00a0 The surviving microbes on the catgut are then killed via sulfuric fumes.\u00a0 From there, the intestines are ready to be stretched\/wound\/etc. into appropriately sized strings.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Catgut String Facts Text Version Catgut strings are prepared by cleaning the intestines of fat and other undesirable additions.\u00a0 They do this by soaking the guts in water, then using a knife to scrape off the various things, such as fat, attached to the intestines.\u00a0 From there, the intestines are soaked [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1261],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-catgut-strings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","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=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7083,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/7083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}