{"id":67,"date":"2013-10-15T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfredarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2013-10-15T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:40:23","slug":"salt-cellars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2013\/10\/15\/salt-cellars\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt cellars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/09\/salt-cellars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61 aligncenter\" alt=\"Salt cellars\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/09\/salt-cellars.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a few more items from bygone days: <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Salt cellar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salt_cellar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">salt cellars<\/a>. Today we&#8217;re used to reaching for the salt shaker, knowing that salt is cheap and readily available. The history of salt can be an interesting way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/quick-history-salt-cellarsretr-132395\">learn about our past<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><br \/>\n<!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"text-indent:-.25in\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol\">\u00b7<span style=\"font:7pt 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Cambria', 'serif'\">These small dishes, known as \u201csalt cellars\u201d were used to hold salt at the table for an individual. Salt was a precious, and necessary, commodity. Salt cellars were used until the early 1900s, when salt was more refined and more readily available. These dishes are now collectors\u2019 items; the ones shown in the photo were once part of the Steinheim Museum at Alfred University.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size:1em\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sunderv7.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/31\/how-valuable-is-salt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How valuable is salt?<\/a> (sunderv7.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a few more items from bygone days: salt cellars. Today we&#8217;re used to reaching for the salt shaker, knowing that salt is cheap and readily available. The history of salt can be an interesting way to learn about our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2013\/10\/15\/salt-cellars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8],"tags":[63,115,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}