{"id":41446,"date":"2015-11-24T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=41446"},"modified":"2015-11-27T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:41:28","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-what-was-the-ultimate-re-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-what-was-the-ultimate-re-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What was the Ultimate Re-gift?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/mariner-cheese-board?source=blog_UK151124\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41638 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/uk_24568-use.jpg\" alt=\"Mariner Cheese Board | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere\u2019s no shame in a re-gift. Sometimes a sweater from your knitting-obsessed Aunt Laura just doesn\u2019t highlight your eyes, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. It\u2019s easy to re-wrap a candle with a scent you don\u2019t like or return a set of socks that don\u2019t quite fit\u2014but what do you do with a 1250-pound, nine-foot cheddar wheel? That was the conundrum Queen Victoria faced at <a title=\"Queen Victoria\u2019s Wedding - History Today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/richard-cavendish\/queen-victoria%E2%80%99s-wedding\" target=\"_blank\">her 1840 wedding to Prince Albert<\/a>. The cheesy gift was produced by a cooperative of cheese makers from two villages, meaning two entire villages of cheese folk felt that this would be an excellent gift for a newly married set of cousins (yep). Needless to say, Queen Victoria definitely didn\u2019t register for this gigantic wheel of cheese and decided to send it on a tour of England instead. After its journey, however, the cheese never made it back to its rightful owner, as Queen Victoria refused to take it back. If that doesn\u2019t make the case for gift receipts, we don\u2019t know what does.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mariner Cheese Board | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/mariner-cheese-board?source=blog_UK151124\" target=\"_blank\">Mariner Cheese Board<\/a> | $32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hint: It was sent on a tour of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":41635,"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\/41446"}],"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=41446"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42283,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41446\/revisions\/42283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}