{"id":7897,"date":"2014-12-02T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2014-12-02T07:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:45:50","slug":"a-partial-history-of-the-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/a-partial-history-of-the-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"A partial history of the turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cover-320x320.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7898\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/a-partial-history-of-the-turkey\/cover-320x320\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cover-320x320.png?fit=320%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cover-320&#215;320\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Greg Laden with big knife&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cover-320x320.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cover-320x320.png?fit=320%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cover-320x320.png?resize=320%2C320\" alt=\"cover-320x320\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cover-320x320.png?resize=320%2C320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cover-320x320.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cover-320x320.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>&#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\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A partial history of the turkey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[726,725,724,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-23n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897"}],"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=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7900,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}