{"id":34343,"date":"2024-03-08T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T07:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=262898"},"modified":"2024-03-08T16:12:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:12:53","slug":"how-well-do-you-know-the-history-behind-everyday-inventions","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-behind-everyday-inventions\/","title":{"rendered":"How well do you know the history behind everyday inventions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Do you know who invented postboxes? Or what gadget was first marketed as the &#8216;Lazy Bones&#8217;? Test your knowledge on the history of everyday inventions in this quiz&#8230; <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Eugene Byrne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 08 March 2024 at 07:26 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <div class=\"riddle_target\" data-rid-id=\"502024\" data-fg=\"#1486CD\" data-bg=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\" style=\"margin:0 auto;;;\" data-auto-scroll=\"true\" data-auto-scroll-offset=\"0\">\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/files\/js\/embed.js\"\/>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/files\/css\/embed.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/>\n<iframe style=\"width:100%;height:300px;border:1px solid #cfcfcf;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/a\/502024?\" allow=\"autoplay\" title=\"Quiz - (untitled)\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>This quiz was first published in the February 2024 issue of <a href=\"\/bbc-history-magazine\/\"><em>BBC History Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Do you know who invented postboxes? Or what gadget was first marketed as the &#8216;Lazy Bones&#8217;? Test your knowledge on the history of everyday inventions in this quiz&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":34344,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-behind-everyday-inventions.jpg",619,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-behind-everyday-inventions-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-behind-everyday-inventions-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-behind-everyday-inventions.jpg",619,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-behind-everyday-inventions.jpg",619,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-behind-everyday-inventions.jpg",619,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/03\/how-well-do-you-know-the-history-behind-everyday-inventions.jpg",619,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Do you know who invented postboxes? Or what gadget was first marketed as the 'Lazy Bones'? Test your knowledge on the history of everyday inventions in this quiz...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/34343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}