{"id":35494,"date":"2015-03-02T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=35494"},"modified":"2015-02-23T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:44:40","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-hatters-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-hatters-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why are hatters so mad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/alice-in-wonderland-storybook-blanket?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-35495 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/23326_AliceInWonderlandThrow-e1424719389283-548x564.jpg\" alt=\"Alice In Wonderland Storybook Blanket | UncommonGoods\" width=\"458\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/23326_AliceInWonderlandThrow-e1424719389283-548x564.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/23326_AliceInWonderlandThrow-e1424719389283-300x308.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Alice\u2019s whackadoo tea party host, to the phrase \u201cmad as a hatter,\u201d hatters and their sanity seem to be getting a bad rap. The imagery, however, is rooted in some truth. From the 1700s through the early 1900s, mercuric nitrate was a commonly used compound in hat making. The result after many years of hatting? Mercury poisoning. Symptoms included tremors and extreme irritability, which led to the \u201cmad as a hatter\u201d expression. Talk about an occupational hazard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/alice-in-wonderland-storybook-blanket?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Alice in Wonderland Storybook Blanket, $75<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat hair was the least of their worries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":35499,"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\/35494"}],"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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}