{"id":24045,"date":"2013-04-25T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=24045"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:37:48","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-prepared-brown-bag-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-prepared-brown-bag-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Who prepared your brown bag lunch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/upcycled-tent-lunch-bag?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21200_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Upcycled Tent Lunch Bag | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21200_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21200_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21200_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/21200_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Your mom may have packed up your lunch-break PB&#038;J, but she couldn\u2019t have done it without the help of Margaret Knight. Living in 19th century America, Knight was something we don\u2019t often hear about in that age: a prolific woman inventor. She designed a kind of window sash, a numbering machine, and even a form of internal combustion engine. When an ironsmith she had hired to build a prototype for one invention tried to steal her patent, she wasn\u2019t afraid to take him to court and reclaim her intellectual property. But Knight\u2019s most lasting innovation can still be seen in grocery stores and school cafeterias. She invented a machine that folded and glued flat-bottomed, brown paper bags.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/upcycled-tent-lunch-bag?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Upcycled Tent Lunch Bag, $38<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman responsible for inventing your lunch bag!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":24046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}