{"id":9783,"date":"2010-03-16T02:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/why-are-carrots-orange-its-political\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T02:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:58:56","slug":"why-are-carrots-orange-its-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/why-are-carrots-orange-its-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are carrots orange? It&#8217;s political."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nextnature.net\/2009\/08\/why-are-carrots-orange-it-is-political\/'>Why are carrots orange? It&#8217;s political.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"text-top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nextnature.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/carrots_of_many_colors_530.jpg\" alt=\"Carrots of many colors\" width=\"530\" height=\"721\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They\u2019re orange for entirely political reasons: in the 17th century, Dutch growers cultivated orange carrots as a tribute to William of Orange \u2013 who lead the the struggle for Dutch independence \u2013 and the color stuck. A thousand years of yellow, white and purple carrot history, was wiped out in a generation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are carrots orange? It&#8217;s political. They\u2019re orange for entirely political reasons: in the 17th century, Dutch growers cultivated orange carrots as a tribute to William of Orange \u2013 who lead the the struggle for Dutch independence \u2013 and the color stuck. A thousand years of yellow, white and purple carrot history, was wiped out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/why-are-carrots-orange-its-political\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are carrots orange? It&#8217;s political.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}