{"id":14186,"date":"2016-06-16T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14186"},"modified":"2016-06-16T07:52:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T11:52:39","slug":"the-celery-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-celery-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celery Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/061616_1150_TheCeleryPu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Natalie Jacewicz wrote that it&#8217;s kind of weird that celery is even a thing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Celery is an awful source of calories and is largely tasteless which doesn&#8217;t really explain why farmers in the past bothered to cultivate it.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, most of the family of vegetables that celery belongs to is incredibly poisonous, making it a big risk for unclear gain.<\/li>\n<li>Its appeal may, in part, have been its aroma.<\/li>\n<li>In countries like Egypt, Rome, and China people also came to believe that it could be used to help cure hangovers, or as an aphrodisiac.<\/li>\n<li>Its distinctive\u2026leafiness may also have been a draw. In Tutankhamun&#8217;s tomb a wreath made of celery was found.<\/li>\n<li>And it could have been an effective garnish to make otherwise simple meals seem bigger and fancier.<\/li>\n<li>Celery also produces a very satisfying crunch that might have drawn early farmers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other musings about celery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/06\/13\/481617408\/celery-why\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/06\/13\/481617408\/celery-why\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Jacewicz wrote that it&#8217;s kind of weird that celery is even a thing: Celery is an awful source of calories and is largely tasteless which doesn&#8217;t really explain why farmers in the past bothered to cultivate it. Moreover, most of the family of vegetables that celery belongs to is incredibly poisonous, making it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/061616_1150_TheCeleryPu1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14189,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions\/14189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}