{"id":4767,"date":"2011-02-20T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4767"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:53:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:53:20","slug":"where-the-phrase-polly-wants-a-cracker-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/where-the-phrase-polly-wants-a-cracker-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Phrase &#8220;Polly Wants a Cracker&#8221; Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/polly-wants-a-cracker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4768\" title=\"polly-wants-a-cracker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/polly-wants-a-cracker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/polly-wants-a-cracker.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/polly-wants-a-cracker-340x218.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 for Sources and to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nabisco originally released the saltine cracker in 1876.\u00a0 Their slogan for this new type of cracker was \u201cPolly wants a cracker?\u201d, which is where that saying came from. Saltine crackers were mildly successful after being released, but received a huge boost in popularity thanks to the Great Depression.\u00a0 Saltines were a nice cheap, tasty filler to add to other foods such as watery soup, to make the meal more filling.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes Text Version Nabisco originally released the saltine cracker in 1876.\u00a0 Their slogan for this new type of cracker was \u201cPolly wants a cracker?\u201d, which is where that saying came from. Saltine crackers were mildly successful after being released, but received a huge boost in popularity thanks to the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1273],"class_list":["post-4767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-polly-wants-a-cracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767","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=4767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7095,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions\/7095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}