{"id":9905,"date":"2018-07-28T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2018-08-18T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T18:57:45","slug":"simple-yet-non-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9905","title":{"rendered":"Simple, yet non-obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the first wearable pair of eyeglasses &#8212; i.e., the handheld type that one holds on the bridge of the nose &#8212; were invented in the 13th century in Italy, when do you think &#8220;legs&#8221; were invented? \u00a0Legs are the portion that fit over the wearer&#8217;s ears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/spectacles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/spectacles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/legs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9907\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/legs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Answer below the break:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As hard as it is to believe in hindsight, the legs were not invented until 1727 by British optician Edward Scarlett. \u00a0A good example of how some of the simplest inventions are non-obvious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasseshistory.com\/glasses-inventor\/who-invented-glasses\/\">[Link].<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the first wearable pair of eyeglasses &#8212; i.e., the handheld type that one holds on the bridge of the nose &#8212; were invented in the 13th century in Italy, when do you think &#8220;legs&#8221; were invented? \u00a0Legs are the portion that fit over the wearer&#8217;s ears. Answer below the break:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9979,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}