{"id":100859,"date":"2024-11-29T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T07:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/?p=100859"},"modified":"2025-02-10T16:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T09:34:39","slug":"found-on-a-beach-in-yorkshire-that-has-holes-in-and-feels-like-a-mix-between-stone-and-plastic-any-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/found-on-a-beach-in-yorkshire-that-has-holes-in-and-feels-like-a-mix-between-stone-and-plastic-any-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Found on a beach in Yorkshire that has holes in and feels like a mix between stone and plastic. Any ideas ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found on a beach in Yorkshire that has holes in and feels like a mix between stone and plastic. Any ideas ?
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\nAnswer: It\u2019s a Victorian\u2019s toothbrush.
\n\"\"Bone toothbrushes, bristles missing. (These would have decayed in the ground.) Toothbrushes were a luxury. Poorer people would have cleaned their teeth with a stick or marshmallow root or rag and soot.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found on a beach in Yorkshire that has holes in and feels like a mix between stone and plastic. Any ideas ? Answer: It\u2019s a Victorian\u2019s toothbrush. Bone toothbrushes, bristles missing. (These would have decayed in the ground.) Toothbrushes were a luxury. Poorer people would have cleaned their teeth with a stick or marshmallow root\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":112268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life-hacks"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Found-on-a-beach-in-Yorkshire-that-has-holes-in-and-feels-like-a-mix-between-stone-and-plastic.-Any-ideas.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112269,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100859\/revisions\/112269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}