{"id":379401,"date":"2017-09-27T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b21f0c865c90ddb32e55a119f1df4c57"},"modified":"2017-09-27T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T13:19:53","slug":"why-onions-make-us-cry-and-why-some-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=379401","title":{"rendered":"Why onions make us cry (and why some don&#8217;t)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Anthony in Shakespeare&#8217;s Cleopatra may have referred to &#8220;the tears that live in the onion&#8221;. But why do onions actually make us cry? And why do only some onions make us blub in this way when others, including related &#8220;allium&#8221; plants such as garlic, barely ever draw a tear when chopped?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Anthony in Shakespeare&#8217;s Cleopatra may have referred to &#8220;the tears that live in the onion&#8221;. But why do onions actually make us cry? And why do only some onions make us blub in this way when others, including related &#8220;allium&#8221; plants such as garlic,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379402,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379401\/revisions\/379402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}