{"id":3585,"date":"2012-09-16T04:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T11:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/paileontology\/"},"modified":"2012-09-17T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:02:35","slug":"paileontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/16\/paileontology\/","title":{"rendered":"Paileontology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/food\/2012\/08\/the-history-of-the-lunch-box\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Smithsonian Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The History of the Lunch Box<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/food\/files\/2010\/09\/Lunchbox-NMAH-kung-fu-14.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the metal lunch box has mostly gone the way of the overhead projector. Today\u2019s kids often tote their lunches in soft insulated polyester versions that fit easily into backpacks, just the latest development in the long and distinguished history of midday-meal transporting devices.<\/p>\n<p>The seemingly inactive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholepop.com\/features\/lunchboxes\/index.htm\" title=\"Lunch Boxes\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Pop Magazine Online<\/a> has an illustrated history of the lunch box\u2014cutely named Paileontology\u2014that traces the origins to the 19th century.\u00a0Back then working men protected their lunches from the perils of the job site (just imagine what a coal mine or a quarry could do to a guy\u2019s sandwich) with heavy-duty metal pails.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/food\/2012\/08\/the-history-of-the-lunch-box\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to view more cool pails at Smithsonian&#8217;s Food &amp; Think<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Smithsonian Magazine The History of the Lunch Box Sadly, the metal lunch box has mostly gone the way of the overhead projector. Today\u2019s kids often tote their lunches in soft insulated polyester versions that fit easily into backpacks, just the latest development in the long and distinguished history of midday-meal transporting devices. The seemingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}