{"id":4143,"date":"2020-12-18T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T09:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2020\/12\/18\/the-spaghetti-tree\/"},"modified":"2020-12-18T10:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T09:56:05","slug":"the-spaghetti-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2020\/12\/18\/the-spaghetti-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spaghetti Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April Fool&#8217;s Day 1957, the British BBC aired a fake documentary, set in Ticino (an Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland), showing a farming family harvesting spaghetti from (obviously) a <strong>spaghetti tree<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because spaghetti wasn&#8217;t a common meal in the UK at the time, or maybe because the documentary was incredibly convincing&#8230; hundreds of people reached out the Broadcasting Office asking where they could purchase their own spaghetti bush.<\/p>\n<p>The guys at BBC, as in the ancient tradition of <em>British Humour<\/em>, replied: &#8220;<em>place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, either you have a &#8220;<em>green thumb<\/em>&#8221; or not, if you need good equipment for cooking, give me a shout!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April Fool&#8217;s Day 1957, the British BBC aired a fake documentary, set in Ticino (an Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}