{"id":5828,"date":"2011-06-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2011-11-08T21:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:39:25","slug":"graham-crackers-were-invented-by-a-presbyterian-minister-obsessed-with-his-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/graham-crackers-were-invented-by-a-presbyterian-minister-obsessed-with-his-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Crackers Were Invented by a Presbyterian Minister Obsessed with His Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/origin-of-graham-crackers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5829\" title=\"origin-of-graham-crackers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/origin-of-graham-crackers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/origin-of-graham-crackers.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/origin-of-graham-crackers-340x313.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>Graham crackers were invented by Sylvester Graham in 1829.\u00a0 Graham was farm-hand and a teacher who turned\u00a0 Presbyterian minister due to poor health.\u00a0\u00a0 During his time as a minister, Graham developed a unique system for maintaining health.\u00a0 He recommended hard mattresses for sleeping; keeping your bedroom windows open at all times for fresh air; cold showers; loose clothing; consuming only pure water; and exercising regularly. Graham also promoted a type of coarse, unsifted wheat flour, touting its high fiber content.\u00a0 The main ingredient in Graham crackers is this type of flour, which was eventually also named Graham flour, after the minister.\u00a0 Hence the name \u201cGraham Crackers\u201d.<\/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<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Graham crackers were invented by Sylvester Graham in 1829.\u00a0 Graham was farm-hand and a teacher who turned\u00a0 Presbyterian minister due to poor health.\u00a0\u00a0 During his time as a minister, Graham developed a unique system for maintaining health.\u00a0 He recommended hard mattresses for sleeping; keeping your bedroom windows open at all times for fresh air; cold showers; loose clothing; consuming [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[647,1028,1026,1027],"class_list":["post-5828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-food-facts","tag-graham-cracker-facts","tag-graham-cracker-history","tag-graham-cracker-origins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","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=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}