{"id":1455,"date":"2015-03-31T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T21:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T21:45:10","slug":"the-infamous-spaghetti-tree-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/the-infamous-spaghetti-tree-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infamous Spaghetti Tree Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April Fool&#8217;s Day is a time to prank your friends and family members with a tall-tale or fib designed to make them believe something that isn&#8217;t true. When I was growing up it was not uncommon for one of us\u00a0to look out the window first thing in the morning and exclaim, &#8220;Wow, look at that&#8230;it snowed last night!&#8221; Of course one could only hope that the target\u00a0of the prank would\u00a0look outside before remembering what day it was.<\/p>\n<p>But how would you feel if your local news broadcaster pulled a fast one on you this April 1st? In 1957 the BBC&#8217;s Panorama program broadcast a 3-minute segment about the spaghetti harvest in the south of Switzerland. Here, see for yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVo_wkxH9dU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the hoaxes.org website,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest hoax generated an enormous response. Hundreds of people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this query the BBC diplomatically replied, &#8220;Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To this day the <i>Panorama<\/i> broadcast remains one of the most famous and popular April Fool&#8217;s Day hoaxes of all time. It is also believed to be the first time the medium of television was used to stage an April Fool&#8217;s Day hoax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/hoaxes.org\/archive\/permalink\/the_swiss_spaghetti_harvest\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Fool&#8217;s Day is a time to prank your friends and family members with a tall-tale or fib designed to make them believe something that isn&#8217;t true. When I was growing up it was not uncommon for one of us\u00a0to look out the window first thing in the morning and exclaim, &#8220;Wow, look at that&#8230;it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/the-infamous-spaghetti-tree-harvest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Infamous Spaghetti Tree Harvest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-global-media","category-journalism","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}