{"id":31374,"date":"2022-07-15T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/proof-of-why-medieval-peasants-drank-more-water-than-ale#id32143"},"modified":"2022-07-15T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T00:55:00","slug":"proof-of-why-medieval-peasants-drank-more-water-than-ale-there-wasnt-enough-grain-for-it-to-even-be-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/proof-of-why-medieval-peasants-drank-more-water-than-ale-there-wasnt-enough-grain-for-it-to-even-be-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof of why medieval peasants drank more water than ale: There wasn\u2019t enough grain for it to even be possible."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>That gives around 560,000 quarters of malt, enough to make just under 53.8 million gallons of ale a year, 15.37 gallons of ale per adult per year, or a third of a pint a day&mdash;2.36 pints a week per peasant. You can argue that number is guess based on guess, but it would have to be wrong by a factor of 10.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/zythophile.co.uk\/2022\/07\/12\/so-how-much-ale-did-a-medieval-peasant-actually-drink-much-much-less-than-you-think\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Zythophile<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/proof-of-why-medieval-peasants-drank-more-water-than-ale\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        That gives around 560,000 quarters of malt, enough to make just under 53.8 million gallons of ale a year, 15.37 gallons of ale per adult per year, or a third of a pint a day&mdash;2.36 pints a week per peasant. You can ar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31375,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31374\/revisions\/31375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}