{"id":46,"date":"2008-03-19T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/19\/the-salt-of-friendship\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T05:58:00","slug":"the-salt-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/the-salt-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Salt of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Oath-taking, in many cultures, is a ceremony involving salt, just as the act of swearing may employ blood or iron as a sign denoting a person&#8217;s unbreakable word. Salt is shared at table, in a context of order and contentment. Traditional Bedouin will never fight a man with whom they have once eaten salt. When the Lord God of Israel made a covenant with the Jews, it was a Covenant of Salt, denoting an unalterable bond of friendship. It also meant that the Jews had settled down in the Promised Land, had ceased to be sheep-herding nomads, and would now eat the fruit of their harvests, cooked and seasoned with salt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Margaret Visser, <em>Much Depends on Dinner &#8211; the extraordinary history and mythology, allure and obsessions, perils and taboos of an ordinary meal, <\/em>67. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oath-taking, in many cultures, is a ceremony involving salt, just as the act of swearing may employ blood or iron as a sign denoting a person&#8217;s unbreakable word. Salt is shared at table, in a context of order and contentment. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/the-salt-of-friendship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}