{"id":26777,"date":"2013-09-03T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=26777"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T15:08:36","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-teatime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-teatime\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: When is teatime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/chai-tea-kit?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/23884_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"Chai Tea Kit | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/23884_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/23884_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/23884_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/23884_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/23884_zoom1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>If this were a multiple choice question, the answer would have to be \u201cAll of the above,\u201d because there are actually several teatimes throughout the day. Afternoon tea, as we think of it now, is usually credited to Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford. Sometime in the 1840s, she began requesting a tea and refreshments to help stave off that afternoon \u201csinking feeling\u201d, and invited her friends to enjoy it with her as well\u2014thus giving birth to the tea party. This afternoon tea should not be confused, however, with \u201chigh tea.\u201d High tea is a name for a substantial evening meal of hearty fare, traditionally enjoyed by the working class once their day\u2019s labor was complete. And for those who weren&#8217;t satisfied with teatime merely in the afternoon and evening, an additional teatime can be enjoyed in the morning. Called \u201celevenses,\u201d it offers tea and cakes as the perfect way to sustain you through that long gap between breakfast and lunch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/chai-tea-kit?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Chai Tea Kit, $35<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this were a multiple choice question, the answer would have to be \u201cAll of the above\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":26779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}