{"id":20670,"date":"2014-12-02T07:59:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=20670"},"modified":"2014-12-02T07:59:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:59:17","slug":"a-partial-history-of-the-turkey-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/a-partial-history-of-the-turkey-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"A partial history of the turkey (Podcast)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As Thanksgiving ebbs into memory and Christmas looms on the horizon, Eat This Podcast concerns itself with the turkey. For a nomenclature nerd, the turkey is a wonderful bird. Why would a bird from America be named after a country on the edge of Asia? The Latin name offers a clue; the American turkey is Meleagris gallopavo, while the African guineafowl is Numida meleagris. But why did the first settlers adopt a name they were already familiar with, rather than adopt a local indigenous name such as nalaaohki pileewa for the native fowl. Simple answer: nobody knows&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatthispodcast.com\/a-partial-history-of-the-turkey\/\">Listen to the podcast (with extensive notes) here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As Thanksgiving ebbs into memory and Christmas looms on the horizon, Eat This Podcast concerns itself with the turkey. For a nomenclature nerd, the turkey is a wonderful bird. Why would a bird from America be named after a country on the edge of Asia? The Latin name offers a clue; the American turkey is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/a-partial-history-of-the-turkey-podcast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A partial history of the turkey (Podcast)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27,1247,725,724],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5no","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}