{"id":9706,"date":"2022-06-02T02:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=9706"},"modified":"2022-06-02T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:06:10","slug":"jellied-eel-guvnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2022\/06\/02\/jellied-eel-guvnor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jellied eel, guvnor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI did not know, but should not be surprised that until about 1938 there were Dutch ships moored in the Thames selling live eels to London.\n<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dfLKXo8Qu8Y\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nOne Surprised Eel Historian has a nice tread on Twitter on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greenleejw\/status\/1531667259256709121\">how they were so important that for centuries they&#8217;d regularly appeared on maps of London<\/a>. The boats themselves were special too: &#8220;The ships were a well boat&#8230;kind of a floating aquarium. The Dutch used them to transport live eels to London from c. 1475 &#8211; 1938. There were small holes in the sides of the ship to allow for water flow.&#8221; A nice bit of history this, one of those things you never knew had happened but makes complete sense when you learn about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not know, but should not be surprised that until about 1938 there were Dutch ships moored in the Thames selling live eels to London. One Surprised Eel Historian has a nice tread on Twitter on how they were so important that for centuries they&#8217;d regularly appeared on maps of London. The boats themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oh-those-crazy-cloggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9708,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions\/9708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}