{"id":7385,"date":"2011-11-21T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2011-11-22T02:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T10:54:59","slug":"a-bakester-was-once-the-proper-word-to-refer-to-a-female-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/a-bakester-was-once-the-proper-word-to-refer-to-a-female-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Bakester&#8221; was Once the Proper Word to Refer to a Female Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bakster-female-baker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7386\" title=\"bakster-female-baker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bakster-female-baker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bakster-female-baker.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bakster-female-baker-340x236.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cbaker\u201d dates back to around the year 1000.\u00a0 Another term that meant the same thing from that time was \u201cbakester\u201d.\u00a0 This latter word referred to female bakers; this is similar to how a \u201cwebster\u201d was a female weaver, with the \u201c-ster\u201d ending implying a woman.\u00a0 \u201cBakester\u201d is also where the surname \u201cBaxter\u201d comes from.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why a baker's dozen is 13 instead of 12\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/why-a-bakers-dozen-is-13-instead-of-12\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u201cbaker\u201d dates back to around the year 1000.\u00a0 Another term that meant the same thing from that time was \u201cbakester\u201d.\u00a0 This latter word referred to female bakers; this is similar to how a \u201cwebster\u201d was a female weaver, with the \u201c-ster\u201d ending implying a woman.\u00a0 \u201cBakester\u201d is also where the surname \u201cBaxter\u201d comes from. Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1438,702,1236],"class_list":["post-7385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-baker","tag-language-facts","tag-word-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","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=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7458,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions\/7458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}