{"id":8140,"date":"2010-03-08T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:09:50","slug":"fruit-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8140","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of ascorbic acid? It is better known as \"vitamin C\". Ever wonder what \"ascorbic\" means ?<\/p>\n<p>Here's a hint in the form of a question: what disease is vitamin C famously known for preventing? A hint within a hint: sailors who spent long times at sea without fresh fruit or vegetables (though even fresh meat can prevent it) used to get this disease.<\/p>\n<p>That's right: scurvy.<\/p>\n<p>And, so a<i>scorb<\/i>ic acid is the acid which prevents scurvy. If the scientists who discovered it were inclined to use English names, it could've been called a<i>scurv<\/i>ic acid. Instead, they went with the Latin root of \"scurvy\", \"scorbutus\".<\/p>\n<p>For more on vitamin C and scurvy, <a href=\"http:\/\/idlewords.com\/2010\/03\/scott_and_scurvy.htm\">go read more<\/a> about scurvy and how the cure was discovered, then lost, then discovered again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of ascorbic acid? It is better known as \"vitamin C\". Ever wonder what \"ascorbic\" means ? Here's a hint in the form of a question: what disease is vitamin C famously known for preventing? A hint within a hint: sailors who spent long times at sea without fresh fruit or vegetables (though even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}