{"id":890933,"date":"2026-02-08T03:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/why-the-ancients-ate-these-bizarre-foods-and-why-we-dont-anymore\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T03:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:15:52","slug":"why-the-ancients-ate-these-bizarre-foods-and-why-we-dont-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/why-the-ancients-ate-these-bizarre-foods-and-why-we-dont-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Ancients Ate These Bizarre Foods &mdash; and Why We Don&#39;t Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Learn how culture, survival, and science created some of history&#8217;s strangest meals.\u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/why-the-ancients-ate-these-bizarre-foods-and-why-we-don-t-anymore-48651\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Joan Block<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Learn how culture, survival, and science created some of history&#8217;s strangest meals.\u00a0&#8230;Read MoreJoan Block<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148001,536,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ancients","category-science-nature","category-these"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}