{"id":337,"date":"2006-11-13T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T21:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-03-24T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T14:20:23","slug":"the-story-behind-carrots-are-good-for-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/archives\/337","title":{"rendered":"The story behind &#8220;Carrots are good for your eyes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\">Snopes.com<\/a> while I was looking something else up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/food\/ingredient\/carrots.asp\">http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/food\/ingredient\/carrots.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In summary the reason the myth about carrots being good for your eyes was started was as a way to hide the British development of RADAR.  They instead told everyone that they could spot the Nazi planes so far out because their gunners were eating lots of carrots.<\/p>\n<p>That is perhaps one of the coolest stories behind an urban legend I have ever heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this on Snopes.com while I was looking something else up. http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/food\/ingredient\/carrots.asp In summary the reason the myth about carrots being good for your eyes was started was as a way to hide the British development of RADAR. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/archives\/337\">Continue reading <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":[3],"tags":[93,92],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junk","tag-misinformation","tag-urban-legend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}