{"id":4159,"date":"2021-03-23T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2021\/03\/23\/eating-like-a-king\/"},"modified":"2021-03-23T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:00:17","slug":"eating-like-a-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2021\/03\/23\/eating-like-a-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating like a king!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]We must&#8217;ve heard the adage &#8220;<em>Eating like a King<\/em>&#8221; a million of times or so.<\/p>\n<p>Although normally we would think this indicates the <em>quality<\/em> of the food rather than the <em>quantity<\/em>, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least on one occasion, that wasn&#8217;t the case.<\/p>\n<p>The year is 888 AD (easy to remember, isn&#8217;t it?), and the Kingdom of the West Franks is vacant.<\/p>\n<p>Two nobles are candidates: <em>Guy, Duke of Spoleto<\/em> and <em>Odo, Count of Paris<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute, as was customary at that time, was made with alliances, betrayals and now and again some bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>But there is still a fun fact that a chronicler who lived a century later, Ad\u00e9mar de Chabannes, tells us: Guy was rejected by the voters when they found out that he had a very simple and austere diet.<\/p>\n<p>They were actually quite upset about it.<\/p>\n<p>So upset they dismissed him on the grounds that <em>whoever eats so little is not worthy to be our king<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The moral is: eat well, the rules for choosing kings have changed.<\/p>\n<p>And keep me in mind if you want to buy some proper catering equipment (excellent for both nobles and commoners)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]We must&#8217;ve heard the adage &#8220;Eating like a King&#8221; a million of times or so. Although normally we would<\/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-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","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=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}