{"id":17555,"date":"2017-08-11T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=17555"},"modified":"2017-08-11T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:44:01","slug":"100-year-old-fruitcake-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/08\/11\/100-year-old-fruitcake-found\/","title":{"rendered":"A 100-year-old FRUITCAKE was found in Antarctica&#8230; &#8216;(almost) edible&#8217;!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17559\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruitcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruitcake.jpg 785w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruitcake-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruitcake-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/>\n<p><strong>No joke, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzaht.org\/pages\/100-year-old-fruit-cake-found-in-antarcticas-oldest-building#\">100-year-old fruitcake<\/a> was discovered by conservators of the Antarctic Heritage Trust from an expedition hut:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Made by Huntley &amp; Palmers, the fruit cake is still wrapped in paper and encased in the remains of a tin-plated iron alloy tin.<\/p>\n<p>The cake probably dates to the Cape Adare-based Northern Party of Scott\u2019s Terra Nova expedition (1910 \u2013 1913) as it has been documented that Scott took this particular brand of cake with him at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Although the tin was in poor condition, the cake itself looked and smelt (almost) edible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Almost edible?! Aren&#8217;t ALL fruitcakes ALMOST edible?!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You know what&#8217;s worse than <a href=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2015\/11\/29\/my-least-favoritest-things-gifts-for-everyone-else-on-your-list\/\">fruitcake<\/a>? 100-year-OLD fruitcake!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>YUK!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17557\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuk-Fruitcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>via <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/08\/11\/hundred-year-old-fruitcake-fou.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No joke, a 100-year-old fruitcake was discovered by conservators of the Antarctic Heritage Trust from an expedition hut: Made by Huntley &amp; Palmers, the fruit cake is still wrapped in paper and encased in the remains of a tin-plated iron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-17555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-holidays","tag-fruitcake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17562,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555\/revisions\/17562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}